media

See also média, medía, and Media

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with medium.

Derived terms

• tunica media

Etymology 2

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Terms derived from media

media darling media event n mediagenic a

mediascape n multimedia mass media

mainstream media media circus media whore

Translations

means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information

Czech: média (cs) pl. Hungarian: média (hu)

Portuguese: mídia (pt)

the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry

Arabic: وسائل الإعلام (ar) (wasaa'il al-'i3laam) pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 媒體 (cmn), 媒体 (cmn) (méitǐ), 傳媒 (cmn), 传媒 (cmn) (chuánméi) Finnish: tiedotusvälineet (fi), viestimet (fi), media (fi) French: médias (fr) m. pl. German: Medien (de) n. pl. Greek: μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης (el) (mésa mazikís enimérosis) n. pl. (ΜΜΕ (el))

Hindi: संचार माध्यम  (hi) Japanese: メディア (ja) (media), 媒体 (ja) (baitai) Persian: رسانه (fa) (resâne', rasâne') Portuguese: mídia (pt) f. Russian: средства массовой информации (ru) (srédstva mássovoj informácii) n. pl., (abbreviation) СМИ (ru) (SMI), масс-медиа (ru) (mass-média) pl. Spanish: medios de comunicación (es) pl.

Anagrams

• aimed, amide, maide

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Esperanto

Etymology

From medi- + -a.

Adjective

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

1. environmental

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Finnish

Noun

media

1. media

Declension

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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Galician

Noun

media f. (plural medias)

1. average

Related terms

• medio

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Italian

Adjective

media sg.

1. feminine form of medio

Noun

media f. (plural medie)

1. average, mean

Noun

media m. inv.

1. media

Synonyms

• mass media

Verb

media

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

Related terms

• in media
• mediale
• mediano

Anagrams

• madie

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Latin

Adjective

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

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Verb

a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conj.

1. to mediate
2. to intercede, interpose

Related terms

• mediator

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Spanish

Noun

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.

Adjective

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

Verb

media (infinitive mediar)

1. Third-person singular present tense of mediar

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Swedish

Noun

media

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

Usage notes

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