media

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdiə/[1], /ˈmɛdiə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmidi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

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

Not to be confused with medium.

• (vein of insect wing): M

• tunica media
• medial

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”).

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

media

1. plural of medium

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

1. (often treated as uncountable) 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. (often treated as uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.

   Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.

   • 2020, Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do, page 161:

     […] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.

3. (usually with a definite article; often treated as uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

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

4. (computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

• Burmese: မီဒီယာ (midiya)
• Turkish: medya

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

media (not comparable)

1. (computing) Clipping of multimedia.

   I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

   Adjust media sound in multiple apps

• media at 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.
• “media”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

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media

1. Plural form of medium

From medio +‎ -a.

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

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

1. environmental

From English media.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmediɑ/, [ˈme̞diɑ]
• Rhymes: -ediɑ
• Syllabification^(key): me‧di‧a

media

1. media

Borrowed from Latin media.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeðjɐ/

media f (plural medias)

1. average

• medio

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

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

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.

• medium

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

Borrowed from Latin media.

media f sg

1. feminine singular of medio

media f (plural medie)

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

media m (invariable)

1. media

   Synonym: mass media

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

media

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

• in media
• mediale
• mediano

• edima, madie

media

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

• 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)

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media

1. media

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

• mediene

media n

1. definite plural of medium

media n

1. definite plural of medium

Borrowed from English (mass) media.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.dja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdja
• Syllabification: me‧dia

media nvir

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

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

Unadapted borrowing 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/third-person singular imperfect indicative 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

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

Borrowed from Latin media.

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 arithmatic 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.

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

media f sg

1. feminine singular of medio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

media

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

• “media”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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)