medietas

Latin

Etymology

From medius +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.e.taːs/, [mɛˈdi.ɛ.taːs]

Noun

medietās f (genitive medietātis); third declension

  1. the center, middle part of something, midpoint
  2. (transf.): half

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative medietās medietātēs
genitive medietātis medietātum
dative medietātī medietātibus
accusative medietātem medietātēs
ablative medietāte medietātibus
vocative medietās medietātēs

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Old French: meitié
  • Old Portuguese: meiadade, meetade
  • Romanian: jumătate
  • Romansh: mited, mità
  • Sardinian: meidade, meitate, metadi, midade
  • Sicilian: mità, mitati
  • Spanish: meitad, mitad

References

  • mĕdĭĕtas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • medietas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • medietas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mĕdĭĕtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 958/1
  • “medietās” on page 1,089 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “medietas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 666–7
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