medius

See also: médius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin from Latin medius (“middle”). See medium.

Noun

medius (plural medii)

(anatomy) The middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for medius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos), Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ), Persian ‎ (miān) etc.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.us/, [ˈmɛ.di.ʊs]

Adjective

medius (feminine media, neuter medium); first/second declension

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	medius	media	medium	mediī	mediae	media
Genitive	mediī	mediae	mediī	mediōrum	mediārum	mediōrum
Dative	mediō	mediae	mediō	mediīs	mediīs	mediīs
Accusative	medium	mediam	medium	mediōs	mediās	media
Ablative	mediō	mediā	mediō	mediīs	mediīs	mediīs
Vocative	medie	media	medium	mediī	mediae	media

comparative: medior, superlative: medissimus

Derived terms

Descendants

Aragonese: medio, meyo
Aromanian: njedz, njedzu
Asturian: mediu
Catalan: mig
Dalmatian: mesu
English: medius

French: mi-
Friulian: mieç, mieğ
Italian: medio, mezzo
Mozarabic: médyo
Occitan: mièg, miei
Portuguese: médio, meio, mídia
Romanian: mediu, miez

Romansch: mez, miez
Sardinian: mesu, mezu, mediu
Sicilian: mezzu, menzu
Spanish: medio
Venetian: mezo, mexo, miso

References

medius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
medius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
medius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
medius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the temperate zone: orbis medius
- to rush into the midst of the foe: in medios hostes se inicere
- to break through the enemy's centre: per medios hostes (mediam hostium aciem) perrumpere
- (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
- (ambiguous) the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
- (ambiguous) manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
- (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
- (ambiguous) elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
- (ambiguous) to bring a subject forward into discussion: in medium proferre aliquid
- (ambiguous) to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
- (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium esse
- (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium se gerere
- (ambiguous) the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
- (ambiguous) the centre: media acies
medius in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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