Adjective: medio
Hyphenation: me‧dio
| Singular m. | medio |
| Singular f. | media |
| Plural m. | medios |
| Plural f. | medias |
Sample Sentences
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media hora (half hour)
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media manzana (half an apple)
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Medio Nueva York fue a los toros. (Half of New York went to the bullfight.)
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clase media (middle class)
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velocidad media (average speed)
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el español medio (the average Spaniard... your typical Spaniard...)
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¡Media bolsa! (Such a huge bag! What an awesome bag! Whatta bag!)
Adjectives inflected like medio
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin medium. Doublet of media. Cognate with English medium. See: Latin Adjectives '
medius', Portuguese Adjectives '
meio'.
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