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media

See also: Media, média, medía, and mediá

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adjective).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

media (plural mediae)

  1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
  3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
  4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Usage notesEdit

Not to be confused with medium.

SynonymsEdit
  • (vein of insect wing): M
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Plural of medium, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adjective).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

media

  1. plural of medium

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

  1. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
    As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
  2. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from media
TranslationsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.

AnagramsEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

media

  1. Plural form of medium

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From medio +‎ -a.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /meˈdia/
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧a
  • Rhymes: -ia

AdjectiveEdit

media (accusative singular median, plural mediaj, accusative plural mediajn)

  1. environmental

FinnishEdit

NounEdit

media

  1. media

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of media (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative media mediat
genitive median medioiden
medioitten
partitive mediaa medioita
illative mediaan medioihin
singular plural
nominative media mediat
accusative nom. media mediat
gen. median
genitive median medioiden
medioitten
mediainrare
partitive mediaa medioita
inessive mediassa medioissa
elative mediasta medioista
illative mediaan medioihin
adessive medialla medioilla
ablative medialta medioilta
allative medialle medioille
essive mediana medioina
translative mediaksi medioiksi
instructive — medioin
abessive mediatta medioitta
comitative — medioineen

GalicianEdit

NounEdit

media f (plural medias)

  1. average

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

media f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

NounEdit

media f (plural medie)

  1. average, mean (especially an overall, average grade)

NounEdit

media m (invariable)

  1. media

SynonymsEdit

VerbEdit

media

  1. third-person singular present of mediare
  2. second-person singular imperative of mediare

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AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

Northern SamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

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NounEdit

media

  1. media

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

media pl

  1. plural of medium
  2. media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information)

DeclensionEdit

declension of media
plural
nominative media
genitive mediów
dative mediom
accusative media
instrumental mediami
locative mediach
vocative media

Further readingEdit

  • media in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English media, mass media.

NounEdit

media m pl (plural only)

  1. (Portugal, journalism) Alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)
Usage notesEdit

Both media and média are used in European Portuguese, with media being the more common form, often italicized to denote the foreign origin and to distinguish it from the verb form of medir. In Brazilian Portuguese the variant mídia, in the singular, is often used. [1]

SynonymsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

media

  1. first-person singular imperfect of medir
  2. third-person singular imperfect of medir

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ https://www.flip.pt/Duvidas-Linguisticas/Duvida-Linguistica/DID/2613

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.

VerbEdit

a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conj.

  1. to mediate
  2. to intercede, interpose

ConjugationEdit

    conjugation of media (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a media
gerund mediind
past participle mediat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present mediez mediezi mediază mediem mediați mediază
imperfect mediam mediai media mediam mediați mediau
simple perfect mediai mediași medie mediarăm mediarăți mediară
pluperfect mediasem mediaseși mediase mediaserăm mediaserăți mediaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să mediez să mediezi să medieze să mediem să mediați să medieze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative mediază mediați
negative nu media nu mediați

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin medius.

NounEdit

media f (plural medias)

  1. sock, stocking
  2. pantyhose (North America), tights (UK)
  3. (mathematics) mean, average
  4. half an hour
    son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.
  5. sharecrop

Usage notesEdit

  • (pantyhose): Often more used in the plural forms with the same meaning.

SynonymsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

media f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

VerbEdit

media

  1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of mediar.
  2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mediar.

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

media

  1. indefinite plural of medium
  2. definite plural of medium

Usage notesEdit

  • While formally a Latin plural, most often used as a collective or plurale tantum (e.g. mass media)
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