metade

• metá (superseded)

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”).

• IPA^(key): [meˈtaðɪ], [meˈta]

metade f (plural metades)

1. a half

• medio

• “metade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “metade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “metade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “metade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “metade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

metade f (plural metades)

1. half

• ametade (obsolete or colloquial)

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Compare Spanish mitad.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de

metade f (plural metades)

1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)
2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes)

   Synonyms: centro, meio

3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)

   Synonym: meio

4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

   Antonym: dobro

• cara-metade
• fazer pela metade

metade

1. past tense of meta.