medial

See also: médial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediālis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.di.əl/

• Audio (UK)

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Adjective

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

   medial allegation

2. In or near the middle; not at either end.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

3. (anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.

   The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

   1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
4. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
5. (linguistics, of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

Antonyms

• (anatomy): lateral

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,‎ distal,‎ dorsal,‎ lateral,‎ medial,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}

Derived terms

• epimedial
• medial capital
• medially

Related terms

• median

Translations

of or pertaining to a mean or average

• Finnish: keski- (fi)
• Hungarian: középső (hu), közép- (hu)

• Russian: сре́дний (ru) (srédnij)
• Spanish: medio (es)

pertaining to the inside

• Finnish: mediaalinen (fi), sisäpuolinen
• Greek: έσω (el) (éso)

• Hungarian: belső (hu), bel- (hu)
• Russian: медиа́льный (ru) (mediálʹnyj), среди́нный (ru) (sredínnyj)

Noun

medial (plural medials)

1. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
   1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

Anagrams

• Dameli, mailed

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /medˈi̯aːl/

• Audio

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Adjective

medial (not comparable)

1. medial

Declension

Declension of medial

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist medial	sie ist medial	es ist medial	sie sind medial
strong declension (without article)	nominative	medialer	mediale	mediales	mediale
	genitive	medialen	medialer	medialen	medialer
	dative	medialem	medialer	medialem	medialen
	accusative	medialen	mediale	mediales	mediale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der mediale	die mediale	das mediale	die medialen
	genitive	des medialen	der medialen	des medialen	der medialen
	dative	dem medialen	der medialen	dem medialen	den medialen
	accusative	den medialen	die mediale	das mediale	die medialen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein medialer	eine mediale	ein mediales	(keine) medialen
	genitive	eines medialen	einer medialen	eines medialen	(keiner) medialen
	dative	einem medialen	einer medialen	einem medialen	(keinen) medialen
	accusative	einen medialen	eine mediale	ein mediales	(keine) medialen

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediālis. Cf. also meaja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdjal/, [meˈðjal]

Adjective

medial (plural mediales)

1. medial

Derived terms

• anteromedial
• inferomedial
• superomedial

Further reading

• “medial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.