medio

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• IPA^(key): /meˈdio/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧o
• Rhymes: -io

medio (accusative singular medion, plural medioj, accusative plural mediojn)

1. environment

13th century. From Old Galician medio, medeo, a learned borrowing from Latin medius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeðjo̝/, /ˈmeðio̝/

medio m (feminine singular media, masculine plural medios, feminine plural medias)

1. half
2. average, typical
3. (figuratively) the greater part
4. central, at the midpoint

• (average, typical): mediano

• media

• metade

medio

1. partly, somewhat, not completely

   É medio parvo. — "He is somewhat stupid."

• “medio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “medea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “medio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “medio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

medio (plural medios)

1. means
2. medium (material in/through which certain wave phenomena operate)

medio m (plural medi)

1. (anatomy) middle finger, tall man

• dito medio

Borrowed from Latin medius, whence also Italian mezzo (an inherited doublet).

medio (feminine singular media, masculine plural medi, feminine plural medie)

1. mean, average

medio

1. first-person singular present of mediare

Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From medius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.oː/, [ˈmɛ.di.oː]

mediō (present infinitive mediāre, perfect active mediāvī, supine mediātum); first conjugation

1. I halve, divide in the middle.
2. I am in the middle.

• mediātus
• mediātor

• medio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• medio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to remove a person: e or de medio tollere
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
    
  • (ambiguous) to publish, make public: in medio ponere (proponere)
    
  • (ambiguous) let us leave that undecided: hoc in medio relinquamus
    

Probably partly borrowed from Latin medius as a semi-learned form or modified from an existing inherited early Old Spanish equivalent, presumably *meo or *meyo, to be closer to the Latin origin (possibly in order to avoid a phonetic similarity with the vulgar verb mear (“to piss”))[1][2]. Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. The sense of "medium" is taken from Latin medium. Cognate with English medium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmedjo/, [ˈmeðjo]
• Hyphenation: me‧dio

medio (feminine singular media, masculine plural medios, feminine plural medias)

1. half, half a/an

   media hora ― half an hour

   media manzana ― half an apple

2. middle, mid

   clase media ― middle class

3. mid, in the middle of
4. mean, average

   velocidad media ― average speed

5. a bit of a, somewhat of a

   Es medio idiota.

   He’s a bit of an idiot.

medio m (plural medios)

1. middle, center
2. half
3. medium (spiritualism)
4. method, way
5. (in the plural) means
6. channel, vehicle, medium
7. (in the plural) media
8. (in the plural) resources, funds, means
9. environment, surroundings, medium, milieu
10. society
11. habitat
12. (soccer) halfback
13. middle course
14. (Mexico) medio (an ancient coin)
15. (Peru, Cuba) five cents

medio

1. half, partly

   medio vestido ― half-dressed

medio

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mediar.

• mediano
• medianoche
• mediodía
• y medio

• a medias
• mediar
• mediatamente
• mediocridad
• medioeval
• promedio

• miedo