mitad

Meaning

half

Frequency

Hyphenated as

mi‧tad

Pronounced as (IPA)

/miˈtad/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish meitad, meytat, meetat, from Late Latin medietātem (compare Catalan meitat, French moitié, Italian metà, Portuguese metade), from Latin medius (“mean, middle”). The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, see: nube.

Cognate with Catalan

meitat

Cognate with French

moitié

Cognate with Portuguese

metade

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Sentences

Se celebran a

mitad de agosto , por San Antonio de Padua

.

They are celebrated in mid-August, by Saint Anthony of Padua.

Desembarcaron en Coronda, a

mitad de camino entre Rosario

y

Santa Fe

.

They disembarked in Coronda, halfway between Rosario and Santa Fe.

Menos de la mitad del genoma contiene genes funcionales .

Less than half of the genome contains functional genes.

La compensación equivalía a la mitad de lo valorado de su posible explotación .

The compensation was equivalent to half of the valuation of its possible exploitation.

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