medi

See also: Medi, medí, medį, međi, and mēḑi

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin medium.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di/

Noun

medi m (plural medis)

1. medium (substance through which another passes)
2. environment
3. medium (person who communicates with ghosts)

Derived terms

• medi ambient

Further reading

• “medi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese medo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu medu.

Verb

medi

1. to fear

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛdi

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

medî

1. masculine plural of medio

Noun

medî m pl

1. plural of medio

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

medi

1. inflection of mediare:
   1. second-person singular present
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

medi

1. masculine plural of medo

Noun

medi m pl

1. plural of medo

Anagrams

• dime, idem

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæːdɪ]

Noun

mẽdi

1. vocative singular of medis

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Makonde

Noun

medi

1. water

References

• Edward Steere, Collections for a handbook of the Makonde language (1876)
• African Languages: Langues Africaines, volume 5 (1979), page 144

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Portuguese

Verb

medi

1. first-person singular preterite of medir

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɟi]

Noun

medi f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of meď

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Slovene

Verb

mẹ́di or médi

1. second-person singular imperative of mesti

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meto- (compare Cornish mysi, Breton medi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare English meadow, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdi/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːdi/, /ˈmɛdi/

• Audio

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Verb

medi (first-person singular present medaf)

1. to reap
   • c. 1800, attributed to Wil Hopcyn, "Bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn":

     Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn
     Ac arall yn ei fedi.

     I’m watching the white wheat
     And someone else is reaping it.

Related terms

• medel (“reaping party, work group”)

Derived terms

• Medi (“September”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
medi	fedi	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.