medior
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Etymology edit
From Latin medius (“middle”); likely formed by analogy with junior and senior.
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medior m (plural medioren or mediors, diminutive medioortje n)
- An intermediate-ranked person in terms of job title, in-between junior and senior.
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medior
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medior
- (Early Modern Latin) comparative degree of medius
- 1665, Petrus Michaelis, De Heredia, page 62:
- Quod si ruber color resultat (ut multi opinantur) ex permixtione bilis cum pituitae portione, quando rubra apparet in quarta die, et tenuem bilem, et paucam pituitam significat, et per consequens coctionem tardari multum non posse, quia intima permistio [sic] mediorem coctionem arguit in materia pauca et subtili...