medio
Meaning
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- half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole)
- half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole)
- middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
- average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values)
- average (of or related to a representative example of a group)
- tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime)
- mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed)
- middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive)
- (Chile, emphatic, intensifier, ironic, slang) impressive (extremely large or good)
Concepts
gadget
in the middle
Synonyms
la mitad
punto medio
habitat
de en medio
mitad de lo entero
Frequency
Hyphenated as
me‧dio
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmedjo/
Etymology
Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin medium. Doublet of media. Cognate with English medium.
New
mediar
- to mediate
- to center, to give a central, medium or average value
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Sentences
En medio de estas condiciones , la balacera se generalizó .
In the midst of these conditions, the shooting became widespread.