meia

• meya (obsolete)

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmej.ɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐj.ɐ/

From Old Portuguese meya, from Latin media, feminine of medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).

meia

1. Feminine singular of adjective meio.

• Kadiwéu: meeya

meia

1. (hypercorrect) Misconstruction of meio

   Estou *meia cansada. (cf. "Estou meio cansada.")

   I'm a bit tired.

• The word meia, as an adverb, appears in vulgar speech because of a confusion about the role of meio. In this case, whenever meio, as an adverb, lies right before a feminine adjective, it is confused for an adjective as well, hence hypercorrected into the feminine declension meia. In standard speech, however, Portuguese adverbs are never inflected by grammatical gender.

meia f (plural meias)

1. sock (covering for the foot; originally short form of meia-calça)
2. (Brazil) a ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children (short form of meia-entrada)
3. (Portugal) obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
4. (when reading a time) half past (short form of meia hora)

   O evento termina às três e meia.

   The event ends at half past three.

meia m, f (plural meias)

1. (soccer) midfielder

• (sock): carpim (Rio Grande do Sul), peúga (Portugal)
• (ticket sold for half its normal price): meia-entrada
• (midfielder): meio-campista

• meia elástica

• meado
• mear
• meias
• meio
• metade

meia

1. (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)

• meia-dúzia, seis

Inflected form of mear (“to half”).

meia

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mear
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mear