med

See also: Appendix:Variations of "med"

English

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US)(file)
  • IPA(key): /mɛːd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Shortened from medical.

Adjective

med (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Medical.
    I'm in med school.

Noun

med (plural meds)

  1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

Etymology 2

Verb

med

  1. (Britain, dialect) may; might
    • Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
      You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Homophone: met

Noun

med m

  1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • med in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • med in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛd/, [mɛð]

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
  3. including, counting

References

Interlingue

Preposition

med

  1. with, by means of

Middle English

Preposition

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/
  • Homophone: me

Preposition

med

  1. with (in the company of)
    Kven vert med oss?
    Who is coming with us?
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *mēdō, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós. Cognate with Old Frisian mede, Old Saxon meda, Old High German miata (German Miete (“rent”)); and with Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “reward”), archaic Russian мзда (mzda, “payment, bribe”), and Slovak mzda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːd/

Noun

mēd f

  1. reward

Declension

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Med

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek μέθη (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi मधु (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu مدھو‎ (“honey”), Persian می‎ (“wine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mêːd/

Noun

mȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)

  1. honey
Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of među.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛd/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling мед)

  1. (Kajkavian) between
  2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛt/

Noun

med m (genitive singular medu, nominative plural medy, genitive plural medov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. honey (the sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • med in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛt/, /mɛd/
  • Tonal orthography: med

Preposition

med

  1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
  2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈméːt/
  • Tonal orthography: mẹ̑d

Noun

méd m inan (genitive medú or méda, uncountable)

  1. honey
Declension

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈméːt/
  • Tonal orthography: mẹ̑d

Noun

méd f (genitive medí, uncountable)

  1. brass
Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː(d)/, /mɛː(d)/
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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mædh, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Adverb

med

  1. also, as well, too
Derived terms
  • See preposition, below
Synonyms

Preposition

med

  1. with, together with, in the company of
    Han tränar (tillsammans) med vänner.
    He trains (together) with friends.
  2. including, containing, with; in addition to
    Han hittade en plånbok med 100 euro.
    He found a wallet containing 100 euros.
    Med dig blir vi 4 (stycken).
    Including you, there will be four of us.
    Han har en motorcykel med sidovagn.
    He has a motorcycle with a sidecar.
    En hög med sand.
    A pile of sand.
  3. by, with; by means of
    Han reste med tåg.
    He travelled by train.
    Han öppnade dörren med nyckeln.
    He opened the door with the key.
  4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)
    Han kör med en hastighet av 90 km/h
    He is driving at a speed of 90 km/h.
    Sluta skriva med stora bokstäver!
    Stop writing in capital letters!
    Han gjorde det med avsikt.
    He did it on purpose.
    Han talar med brytning.
    He speaks with an accent.
  5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")
    1 + 1 är lika med 2
    1 + 1 is equal to 2.
    Hon är gift med en svensk
    She is married to a Swede.
Antonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Noun

med c

  1. a runner (device upon which something slides)
  2. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)
Declension
Declension of med 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative med meden medar medarna
Genitive meds medens medars medarnas
Alternative forms
Synonyms
  • glidskena
  • skridskoskena
Compounds
  • kälkmed
  • meddon
  • medspår
  • slädmed
  • sparkmed

References

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