media

See also: Media, média, medía, and mediá

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, me'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/, /ˈmɛdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

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.

Derived termsEdit

• tunica media
• medial

SynonymsEdit

• (vein of insect wing): M

AntonymsEdit

• (voiced stop): tenuis

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

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

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

• media event (noun)
• mediagenic (adjective)
• mediascape (noun)

• mainstream media
• mass media
• media circus

• media darling
• media whore
• multimedia

TranslationsEdit

means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information

• Arabic: وَسَائِل الْإِعْلَام‏‎ pl (wasāʾil al-ʾiʿlām), إِعْلَام‏‎ m (ʾiʿlām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 媒體 (zh) (méitǐ)

• Czech: média (cs) pl
• Galician: medios m pl
• Hungarian: média (hu)
• Icelandic: miðill (is) m
• Macedonian: меди́уми m pl (medíumi)

• Malay: media
• Pashto: رسنۍ‏‎ (ps) pl, f (rësënai)
• Persian: مدیا‏‎ (mediá)
• Polish: media (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: mídia (pt) f (Brazil), média (pt) m pl, media (pt) m pl
• Russian: ме́диа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios (es) pl
• Swedish: media (sv) n pl

the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry

• Arabic: وَسَائِل اَلْإِعْلَام‏‎ pl (wasāʾil al-ʾiʿlām), إِعْلَام‏‎ m (ʾiʿlām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 媒體 (zh), 媒体 (zh) (méitǐ), 傳媒 (zh), 传媒 (zh) (chuánméi)

• Finnish: tiedotusvälineet, viestimet, media (fi)
• French: médias (fr) m pl
• German: Medien (de) n pl
• Greek: μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης n pl (mésa mazikís enimérosis) (ΜΜΕ (el) (MME))
• Hindi: संचार माध्यम (sañcār mādhyam)
• Icelandic: miðill (is) m

• Japanese: メディア (ja) (media), 媒体 (ja) (baitai)
• Korean: 미디어 (ko) (midieo), 매체 (ko) (maeche) (媒體 (ko))
• Macedonian: меди́уми m pl, f pl (medíumi)
• Pashto: رسنۍ‏‎ (ps) pl, f (rësënai)
• Persian: رسانه‏‎ (fa) (resâne, rasâne), مدیا‏‎ (mediá)
• Portuguese: mídia (pt) f (Brazil), média (pt) m pl, media (pt) m pl
• Russian: сре́дства ма́ссовой информа́ции (ru) n pl (srédstva mássovoj informácii), (abbreviation) СМИ (ru) (SMI), масс-ме́диа (ru) pl (mass-média), ме́диа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios de comunicación pl
• Swedish: press (sv) c, media (sv) n pl

AnagramsEdit

• Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

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DutchEdit

NounEdit

media

1. Plural form of medium

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EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From medi- +‎ -a.

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. environmental

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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

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GalicianEdit

NounEdit

media f (plural medias)

1. average

Related termsEdit

• medio

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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

• mass media

VerbEdit

media

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

Related termsEdit

• in media
• mediale
• mediano

AnagramsEdit

• madie

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LatinEdit

AdjectiveEdit

media

1. nominative feminine singular of medius
2. nominative neuter plural of medius
3. accusative neuter plural of medius
4. vocative feminine singular of medius
5. vocative neuter plural of medius

mediā

1. ablative feminine singular of medius

ReferencesEdit

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “media”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• mediene

NounEdit

media n

1. definite plural of medium

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

media n

1. definite plural of medium

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈdi.a/

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

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PortugueseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowing from English media, mass media.

NounEdit

media m pl (plurale tantum)

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

SynonymsEdit

• (mass media): mídia (Brazil)

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.

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

media

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

ReferencesEdit

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing 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

Related termsEdit

• mediator

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin medius.

NounEdit

media f (plural medias)

1. sock, stocking
2. (usually in the plural) pantyhose
3. (mathematics) mean, average
4. half an hour

   son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.

5. sharecrop

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.

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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)