medianus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
medi- (the stem of medius) + -anus
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈaː.nus/, [mɛd̪iˈäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈa.nus/, [mɛd̪iˈäːnus]
AdjectiveEdit
mediānus (feminine mediāna, neuter mediānum); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mediānus | mediāna | mediānum | mediānī | mediānae | mediāna | |
| Genitive | mediānī | mediānae | mediānī | mediānōrum | mediānārum | mediānōrum | |
| Dative | mediānō | mediānō | mediānīs | ||||
| Accusative | mediānum | mediānam | mediānum | mediānōs | mediānās | mediāna | |
| Ablative | mediānō | mediānā | mediānō | mediānīs | |||
| Vocative | mediāne | mediāna | mediānum | mediānī | mediānae | mediāna | |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Friulian: mezan
- → Galician: mediano
- Italian: mezzano, → mediano
- Ladin: mesan
- → Middle French: median
- Occitan: mejan
- Old Catalan: mitjan
- Old French: meien
- Old Portuguese: meão
- → Portuguese: mediano
- → Romanian: median
- Sicilian: mizzanu, minzanu
- → Spanish: mediano
- Venetian: mexan
- → Irish: meán
- → Welsh: mewn
ReferencesEdit
- medianus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- medianus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- medianus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette