middle

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A centre, midpoint.
2. The part between the beginning and the end.
3. The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
5. The middle voice.
6. the center of the political spectrum.

Adj

1. (no-comparative) Located in the middle; in between.
2. (no-comparative) Central.
3. (no-comparative) Pertaining to the middle voice.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take a middle view of.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
3. (transitive) To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

Conceptes

mig

centre

medi

mitja

mitjà

ull

👁️

central

intermedi

cor

❤️

Sinònims

center

centre

central

midpoint

medium

mean

midst

half

average

halfway

heart

❤️

midway

mid

intermediate

between

among

space

core

median

waist

moderate

medial

in-between

middling

half-way point

inside

in between

half-way

mediate

in the middle

eye

👁️

center

centre

partway

midsection

midterm

amidst

midriff

focus

interval

finger

nucleus

expedient

capital

exchange

emphasis

bull’s eye

dominated

desire

bull

Traduccions

milieu

Mitte

medio

centre

midden

mezzo

meio

centro

centro

orta

central

Zentrum

moyen

μέση

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈmɪdəl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: middel

Heretat de anglès antic: middel

Cognat amb frisó occidental: middel

Cognat amb neerlandès: middel

Cognat amb alemany: mittel

Cognat amb alemany: Mittel

Cognat amb danès: middel

Cognat amb suec: medel

Cognat amb islandès: meðal

In summary

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.

Frases

In the middle is Apollo the god of art , music and poetry .

The town is situated in the middle of Jutland .

The Shade River flows predominantly as three streams , its east , middle , and west branches .