med

med

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛːd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Adjective

med (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Clipping of medical.
Derived terms

Noun

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)

  1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
  2. (informal, uncountable) Short for medicine (as an academic subject).
  3. (informal, countable) A medic; a doctor.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

med

  1. (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.

Anagrams

  • D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

Balinese

Romanization

med

  1. Romanization of ᬫᭂᬤ᭄

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • meed (variant spelling)
  • mied (southern Moselle Franconian)
  • möd (Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German muode, from Old High German muodi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːt/

Adjective

med (masculine mede, feminine med, comparative meder, superlative et medste)

  1. (northern Moselle Franconian) tired

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛt]
  • Hyphenation: med
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Homophone: met

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový)

  1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)
    Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “med”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “med”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “med”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛð/, [mɛð]

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
  3. including, counting

References

  • “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Old Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmeːd/

Pronoun

mēd

  1. Old Latin form of mē
    • 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:
    • 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:
    • c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:
    • 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I2 2658; image (page 18)):
    • c. 500 BC, Garigliano bowl:

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Etymology 4

Preposition

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

  • “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/
  • Homophone: me

Preposition

med

  1. with (in the company of)
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

  • “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈmɛd/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈmɛt/

Noun

med m inan

  1. honey

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: med

Further reading

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “med”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old English

Alternative forms

  • meord
  • ᛗᛖᛞᚢ (medu) — Runic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːd/

Noun

mēd f

  1. reward
    • 5th century, Undley bracteate

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

Descendants

  • Middle English: mede, meede
    • English: meed
    • Scots: med

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛt/

Noun

med m ? (genitive singular medai)

  1. honey

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Mède.

Noun

med m (plural mezi)

  1. Mede

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *médu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek μέθη (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi मधु (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu مدھو (“honey”), Persian می (“wine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mêːd/

Noun

mȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)

  1. honey
    teče med i mleko iz usta - milk and honey floats from his mouth
Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of među.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛd/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling мед)

  1. (Kajkavian) between
  2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [met]

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový or medný, diminutive medík or medíček)

  1. honey

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “med”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛt/

Preposition

med

  1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
  2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /méːt/

Noun

mẹ̑d m inan

  1. honey
Declension

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /méːt/

Noun

mẹ̑d f

  1. brass
Declension

Further reading

  • “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mæþ, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː(d)/, /mɛː(d)/

Adverb

med

  1. also, as well, too
    Synonym: också
Derived terms
  • See preposition below.

Preposition

med

  1. with, together with, in the company of
  2. including, containing, with; in addition to
  3. by, with; by means of
  4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)
  5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")
Antonyms
  • mot
  • utan
Derived terms
Related terms
  • genom
  • medelst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːd/

Noun

med c

  2. a runner (device upon which something slides)
  3. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)
Declension
Alternative forms
  • mede
Synonyms
  • glidskena
  • skridskoskena
Derived terms
  • kälkmed
  • meddon
  • medspår
  • slädmed
  • sparkmed

References

  • med in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • dem

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