Noun: medio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: me‧dio
| Singular m | medio |
| Plural m | medios |
Sample Sentences
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Se despertó en medio de la noche. (She awoke in the middle of the night.)
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Alemania está en medio de Europa. (Germany is in the middle of Europe.)
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en medio de la nada (in the middle of nowhere)
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El fin justifica los medios. (The end justifies the means.)
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por todos los medios (by any means)
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Se mejoraron los medios de transporte. (Means of transport were improved.)
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La velocidad de la luz depende del medio. (The speed of light depends on the medium.)
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¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito? (What's your favorite painting medium?)
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medios aristocráticos (aristocratic circles... the aristocracy...)
Nouns inflected like medio
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 Nouns '
medius', Portuguese Nouns '
meio', Latin Nouns '
medium', English Nouns '
medium'.
Verbs referencing "medio"
English Nouns
medio, Asturian Nouns
mediu.
Translations