medianus

Latin

Etymology

From medi- (the stem of medius) +‎ -anus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈaː.nus/, [mɛd̪iˈäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈa.nus/, [med̪iˈäːnus]

Adjective

mediānus (feminine mediāna, neuter mediānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. middle, central

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mediānus	mediāna	mediānum		mediānī	mediānae	mediāna
Genitive	mediānī	mediānae	mediānī		mediānōrum	mediānārum	mediānōrum
Dative	mediānō		mediānō		mediānīs
Accusative	mediānum	mediānam	mediānum		mediānōs	mediānās	mediāna
Ablative	mediānō	mediānā	mediānō		mediānīs
Vocative	mediāne	mediāna	mediānum		mediānī	mediānae	mediāna

Related terms

• mediālis
• mediānum
• mediātor
• mediē
• mediocris

• mediterrāneus
• meditullium
• medium
• medius

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: mezzano, mezzana
    • → Catalan: messana
    • → Portuguese: mezana (obsolete?), mezena
    • → Spanish: mezana (obsolete), mesana
  • Sicilian: mizzanu, minzanu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: mezan
  • Ladin: mesan
  • Old Lombard: meçan
  • Piedmontese: msan, mesan, miana
  • Romansch: mezzaun, mezdan
  • Venetian: mexan
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: meien, meiene
    • French: moyen, moyenne
    • → Middle English: meene
      • English: mean
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: meyano, michano (Ribagorçan), minchans (Belsetán, plural)
  • Occitan: mejan
  • Old Catalan: mijà
    • Catalan: mitjà
    • → Old French: migenne
      • Middle French: misaine
        • → English: mizzen
  • → Spanish: mejana
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: mianu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: meão
    • Galician: meán, meao
    • Portuguese: meão, meã
  • Old Spanish: miano (in toponyms)
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: medón
    • Irish: meán
    • Manx: mean
    • Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
    • →? Welsh: mewn
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: mediana
  • → Galician: mediano
  • → Italian: mediano
  • → Middle French: median
    • French: médian
    • → English: median
  • → Portuguese: mediano
  • → Romanian: median
  • → Spanish: mediano

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “medianus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume
  , page 578

Further reading

• “medianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medianus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• medianus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.