media

media

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English

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.di.ə/, /ˈmɛ.di.ə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmi.di.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːdiə

Noun

media (plural medias or mediae)

  1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
    Antonym: tenuis
  3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  5. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
Usage notes
  • Not to be confused with medium.
Synonyms
  • (vein of insect wing): M
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmiːdiə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmidi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːdiə

Noun

media

  1. plural of medium (only in certain senses)
  2. (rare, nonstandard) plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

Noun

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

  1. (often treated as uncountable) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  2. (often treated as uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
  3. (usually with a definite article; often treated as uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
  5. (computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Burmese: မီဒီယာ (midiya)
  • Turkish: medya
Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).

Adjective

media (not comparable)

  1. (computing) Clipping of multimedia.

References

  • “media”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • media in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “media”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

media

  1. plural of medium

Esperanto

Etymology

From medio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈdia/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧a

Adjective

media (accusative singular median, plural mediaj, accusative plural mediajn)

  1. environmental

Finnish

Etymology

From English media.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmediɑ/, [ˈme̞diɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ediɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): me‧dia

Noun

media

  1. media

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “media”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmedja/ [ˈme.ð̞jɐ]
  • Rhymes: -edja
  • Hyphenation: me‧dia

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin media.

Noun

media f (plural medias)

  1. average
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

media

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of medir

Indonesian

Etymology

  • From Dutch media, from Latin media.
  • Semantic loan from English media.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmedia̯]
  • Hyphenation: mé‧dia

Noun

media or média

  1. medium,
    1. the means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved
    2. (biology) a nutrient solution for the growth
  2. media,
    1. means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information
    2. (computing) a particular form of storage for digitized information, such as magnetic tape or discs

Alternative forms

  • medium

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “media” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin media.

Adjective

media f sg

  1. feminine singular of medio

Noun

media f (plural medie)

  1. average, mean (especially an overall, average grade)

Noun

media m (invariable)

  1. media
    Synonym: mass media

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

media

  1. inflection of mediare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

  • in media
  • mediale
  • mediano

Anagrams

  • edima, madie

Latin

Adjective

media

  1. inflection of medius:
    1. nominative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

mediā

  1. ablative/vocative feminine singular of medius

References

  • "media", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmetiːa/

Noun

media

  1. media

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • mediene

Noun

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English (mass) media.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.dja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdja
  • Syllabification: me‧dia

Noun

media nvir pl

  1. plural of medium
  2. media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • media in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • media in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English media, mass media.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧a

Noun

media m pl (plural only)

  1. (Portugal, journalism) Alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)
    Synonym: (Brazil) mídia
Usage notes

Both media and média are used in European Portuguese, with media being the more common form, often italicized to denote the foreign origin and to distinguish it from the verb form of medir. In Brazilian Portuguese the variant mídia, in the singular, is often used.

References

  • “media”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  • “media”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  • “média / media | Estrangeirismos e aportuguesamentos” in FLiP (in Portuguese)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧a

Verb

media

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of medir

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧a

Verb

media

  1. inflection of mediar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 4

Adjective

media

  1. feminine singular of medio

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, from Latin medius.

Verb

a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conjugation

  1. to mediate
  2. to intercede, interpose

Conjugation

Related terms

  • mediator

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmedja/ [ˈme.ð̞ja]
  • Rhymes: -edja
  • Syllabification: me‧dia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin media.

Noun

media f (plural medias)

  1. half (one of two equal parts of any whole)
  2. (historical) Synonym of cuarto, half-fanega (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L)
  3. stocking (long thin leggings worn by women)
    Synonym: calceta
  4. (usually in the plural) pantyhose (stockings connected at the top and pulled up to the waist)
    Synonyms: panti, pantimedia
  5. (most of Latin America, Philippines) sock (short unisex cloth covering for feet)
    Synonym: calcetín
  6. (mathematics) mean, average (the arithmetic middle in a set of values)
    media geométrica ― geometric mean
  7. (anatomy) midline (the medial line of the human body)
  8. (usually with 'y') half past (especially as an indication that it is exactly 30 minutes after the hour)
    Son las cinco y media. ― It’s half past five.
    Empezamos a LA media en punto. ― We started at precisely half past LA time.
Usage notes
  • In most of Latin America, media covers both sock and stocking as a single concept. When it is necessary to distinguish between the two, calceta is used for "stocking" and calcetín for "sock". In most of Mexico, media is only used for stockings except in reference to American baseball teams.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Aymara: miryasa
  • → Cebuano: medyas
  • → Hiligaynon: medyas
  • → Maguindanao: midias
  • → Tagalog: medyas
  • → Tausug: midyas
  • → Yucatec Maya: meedias

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

media f sg

  1. feminine singular of medio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

media

  1. inflection of mediar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “media”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

media

  1. indefinite plural of medium
  2. definite plural of medium

Usage notes

  • While formally a Latin plural, most often used as a collective or plurale tantum (e.g. mass media)

Derived terms

  • statsmedia

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