media

See also: Media, média, medía, and mediá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adjective).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: mē'diə, me'diə, IPA(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/, /ˈmɛdɪə/
  • (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːdiə

Noun

media (plural 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.
  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.
Usage notes

Not to be confused with medium.

Synonyms
  • (vein of insect wing): M
Antonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Plural of medium, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adjective).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: mē'diə, IPA(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/
  • (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːdiə

Noun

media

  1. plural of medium

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

  1. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) 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. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

  • "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

media

  1. Plural form of medium

Esperanto

Etymology

From medi- +‎ -a.

Adjective

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

  1. environmental

Finnish

Noun

media

  1. media

Declension

Inflection of media (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative media mediat
genitive median medioiden
medioitten
partitive mediaa medioita
illative mediaan medioihin
singular plural
nominative media mediat
accusative nom. media mediat
gen. median
genitive median medioiden
medioitten
mediainrare
partitive mediaa medioita
inessive mediassa medioissa
elative mediasta medioista
illative mediaan medioihin
adessive medialla medioilla
ablative medialta medioilta
allative medialle medioille
essive mediana medioina
translative mediaksi medioiksi
instructive — medioin
abessive mediatta medioitta
comitative — medioineen

Galician

Noun

media f (plural medias)

  1. average

Italian

Adjective

media f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

Noun

media f (plural medie)

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

Noun

media m (invariable)

  1. media

Synonyms

Verb

media

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

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

media

  1. nominative feminine singular of medius
  2. nominative neuter plural of medius
  3. accusative neuter plural of medius
  4. vocative feminine singular of medius
  5. vocative neuter plural of medius

mediā

  1. ablative feminine singular of medius

References

Northern Sami

Noun

media

  1. media

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

media n

  1. definite plural of medium

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛˈdi.a/

Noun

media pl

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

Declension

Further reading

  • media in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English media, mass media.

Noun

media m pl (plural only)

  1. (Portugal, journalism) Alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)
Usage notes

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]

Synonyms
  • (mass media): mídia (Brazil)

Etymology 2

Verb

media

  1. first-person singular imperfect of medir
  2. third-person singular imperfect of medir

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.

Verb

a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conj.

  1. to mediate
  2. to intercede, interpose

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin medius.

Noun

media f (plural medias)

  1. sock, stocking
  2. (usually in the plural) pantyhose
  3. (mathematics) mean, average
  4. half an hour
    son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.
  5. sharecrop

Adjective

media f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

Verb

media

  1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of mediar.
  2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mediar.

Swedish

Noun

media

  1. indefinite plural of medium
  2. definite plural of medium

Usage notes

  • While formally a Latin plural, most often used as a collective or plurale tantum (e.g. mass media)
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