médium
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin medium. The sense of "person who contacts the dead" is probably a semantic loan from English medium. Doublet of mi-.
NounEdit
médium m (plural médiums)
- (music) middle register
- (spiritualism, parapsychology) medium (a person who contacts the dead)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “médium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English medium (“middle”), possibly via English medium.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
médium m, f (plural médiuns)
- (spiritualism) medium (a person who contacts the dead)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:médium.