media

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Usage notes 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 2 Esperanto 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Adjective 3 Finnish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Declension 4 Galician 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Related terms 5 Italian 5.1 Adjective 5.2 Noun 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Synonyms 5.4 Verb 5.5 Related terms 6 Spanish 6.1 Noun 6.2 Adjective 6.3 Verb

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: mē'diə, IPA: /ˈmiːdiə/, SAMPA: /"mi:di@/

  Rhymes: -iːdiə

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] 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. (engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.

[edit] Usage notes

Not to be confused with medium.

[edit] Derived terms

• tunica media

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[edit] Noun

media (plural medias)

1. Formats for presenting information.

   Collage is a form of mixed-media artwork.

2. (with a definite article) The journalists and other professionals who compose the mass communication industry.
3. Plural form of medium.

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• media event n
• mediagenic a
• mediascape n
• multimedia
• mass media
• mainstream media
• media whore

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[edit] Etymology

From medi- + -a.

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

1. environmental

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[edit] Finnish

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media

1. media

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Declension of media (type katiska) singular plural nominative media mediat genitive median medioiden medioitten mediojen mediain1 partitive mediaa medioita medioja accusative media median mediat 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 1) Rare.

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[edit] Galician

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media f. (plural medias)

1. average

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• medio

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media sg.

1. Feminine form of medio.

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media f. (plural medie)

1. average, mean

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media m. inv.

1. media

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• mass media

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media

1. Third-person singular present tense of mediare.
2. Second-person singular imperative of mediare.

[edit] Related terms

• in media
• mediale
• mediano

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media f. (plural medias)

1. sock, stocking
2. pantyhose
3. (mathematics) mean, average
4. half an hour

   son las cinco y media = it’s 5:30.

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media f. (masculine medio, feminine plural medias, masculine plural medios)

1. half

   media hora = half an hour.

2. middle, mid, in the middle of
3. average, mean

[edit] Verb

media (infinitive: mediar)

1. Third-person singular present tense of mediar.