media

Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adjective).

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, me'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/, /ˈmɛdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

media (plural 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.
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.

Not to be confused with medium.

• (vein of insect wing): M

• (voiced stop): tenuis

• tunica media
• medial

Plural of medium, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adjective).

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

media

1. plural of medium

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

1. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

   As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.

2. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

   Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.

• "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.

• Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

• Audio

  (file)

media

1. Plural form of medium

From medio +‎ -a.

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

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

1. environmental

From English media.

media

1. media

Borrowed from Latin media.

media f (plural medias)

1. average

• medio

media

1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

Borrowed from Latin media.

media f (plural medie)

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

media m (invariable)

1. media

• mass media

media

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

• in media
• mediale
• mediano

• madie

media

1. nominative feminine singular of medius
2. nominative neuter plural of medius
3. accusative neuter plural of medius
4. vocative feminine singular of medius
5. vocative neuter plural of medius

mediā

1. ablative feminine singular of medius

• media in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

media

1. media

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Álgu database

• mediene

media n

1. definite plural of medium

media n

1. definite plural of medium

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛd.ja/

media pl

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

• media in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English media, mass media.

media m pl (plural only)

1. (Portugal, journalism) Alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)

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. [1]

• (mass media): mídia (Brazil)

media

1. first-person singular imperfect of medir
2. third-person singular imperfect of medir

Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.

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

1. to mediate
2. to intercede, interpose

• mediator

Borrowed from Latin media.

media f (plural medias)

1. sock, stocking
2. pantyhose (North America), tights (UK)
3. (mathematics) mean, average
4. half an hour

   son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.

5. sharecrop

• (pantyhose): Often more used in the plural forms with the same meaning.

• (pantyhose): panti f, pantimedia f

media f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

media

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mediar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mediar.

media

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

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