metade

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. a half

See also

• medio

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. half

Alternative forms

• ametade (obsolete or colloquial)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.ˈta.d͡ʒi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.ˈta.de/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.ˈta.ðɨ/
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de
• Rhymes: -adʒi

Noun

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)
3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)
4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

Verb

metade

1. past tense of meta.