medo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *meduz. Compare English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέδος (médos), Latin mēdus.
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Noun edit
medo (accusative singular medon, plural medoj, accusative plural medojn)
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Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, from Latin metus. Cognate with Portuguese medo, Asturian mieu, Spanish miedo.
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Noun edit
medo m (uncountable)
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References edit
- “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “medo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “medo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “medo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin Mēdus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos), from an Iranian language.
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Adjective edit
medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medi, feminine plural mede)
- (historical) Median (pertaining to Media or Medes)
Noun edit
medo m (plural medi, feminine meda)
- (historical) Mede, Median (person from Media)
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medo m (uncountable)
- Median (language)
Further reading edit
- medo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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medo
Middle English edit
Noun edit
medo
- Alternative form of medwe
Pali edit
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medo
- nominative singular of meda (“fat”)
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, from Latin metus (“fear”). Compare Spanish miedo.
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Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧do
Noun edit
medo m (plural medos)
- fear (emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat)
- Não tenho medo.
- I'm not afraid.
- Estamos com medo.
- We are afraid.
- 2007, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte, Rocco, page 317:
- Desculpe, acho que dá mais medo se for meia-noite!
- I'm sorry, I thought that it would be more fearsome if it were midnight!
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Etymology 2 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin Mēdus
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧do
Adjective edit
medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medos, feminine plural medas)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Derived from medved
Noun edit
medo n (Cyrillic spelling медо)
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medos, feminine plural medas)
- (historical, relational) of Media; Mede (of or relating to historical Media)
Noun edit
medo m (plural medos, feminine meda, feminine plural medas)
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Further reading edit
- “medo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014