medial

See also: médial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediālis.

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.di.əl/
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Adjective

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
    medial allegation
  2. In or near the middle; not at either end.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
      Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  3. (anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
    The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
    1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  4. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
  5. (linguistics, of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

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Noun

medial (plural medials)

  1. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
    1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medialis.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /medˈi̯aːl/
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

medial (not comparable)

  1. medial

Declension
Declension of medial
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist medial sie ist medial es ist medial sie sind medial
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative medialer mediale mediales mediale
genitive medialen medialer medialen medialer
dative medialem medialer medialem medialen
accusative medialen mediale mediales mediale
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der mediale die mediale das mediale die medialen
genitive des medialen der medialen des medialen der medialen
dative dem medialen der medialen dem medialen den medialen
accusative den medialen die mediale das mediale die medialen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein medialer eine mediale ein mediales (keine) medialen
genitive eines medialen einer medialen eines medialen (keiner) medialen
dative einem medialen einer medialen einem medialen (keinen) medialen
accusative einen medialen eine mediale ein mediales (keine) medialen

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediālis. Cf. also meaja.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /meˈdjal/, [meˈðjal]

Adjective

medial (plural mediales)

  1. medial

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