media

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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.
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Not to be confused with medium.

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media

  1. Plural form of medium.
  2. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
    As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media have declined in popularity.
  3. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombard them with questions.
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From medi- + -a.

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

  1. environmental

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media

  1. media

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media f. (plural medias)

  1. average

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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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media

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

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media

  1. nominative feminine singular of medius
  2. nominative neuter plural of medius
  3. accusative neuter plural of medius
  4. vocative feminine singular of medius
  5. nominative neuter plural of medius

mediā

  1. ablative feminine singular of medius

[edit] Romanian

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Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.

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a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat1st conj.

  1. to mediate
  2. to intercede, interpose

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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

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media (infinitive mediar)

  1. Third-person singular present tense of mediar

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media

  1. indefinite plural of medium
  2. definite plural of medium

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  • While formally a Latin plural, most often used as a collective or plurale tantum (e.g. mass media)
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