mídia

See also: midia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• média (Portugal)

Etymology

Borrowed from English media.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.d͡ʒi.ɐ/ [ˈmi.d͡ʒɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmi.d͡ʒjɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.d͡ʒi.ɐ/ [ˈmi.d͡ʒɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmi.d͡ʒjɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.d͡ʒi.a/ [ˈmi.d͡ʒɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmi.d͡ʒja/

• Hyphenation: mí‧di‧a

Noun

mídia f (plural mídias) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. media (journalists and other professionals who compose the mass communication industry)

   Synonym: media

2. multimedia
3. (by extension, countable, technology) any medium, such as a disk, which reproduces audio and/or video

   Um CD é uma mídia física para reproduzir músicas.

   A CD is a physical medium to reproduce music.

Related terms

• midiático

Further reading

• “mídia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “mídia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024