media

See also: Media, média, medía, and mediá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adjective).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, me'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/, /ˈmɛdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

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.

   Antonym: tenuis

3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with medium.

Synonyms

• (vein of insect wing): M

Derived terms

• tunica media
• medial

Etymology 2

Plural of medium, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adjective).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mē'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪə/
• (US) enPR: mē'dēə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːdiə

Noun

media

1. plural of medium

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

1. (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 has declined in popularity.

2. (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 bombards them with questions.

Derived terms

• media event (noun)
• mediagenic (adjective)
• mediascape (noun)
• mainstream media
• mass media
• media circus
• media darling
• media whore
• multimedia

 

Translations

means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information

• Arabic: وَسَائِل الْإِعْلَام‎ pl (wasāʾil al-ʾiʿlām), إِعْلَام‎ m (ʾiʿlām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 媒體 (zh) (méitǐ)

• Czech: média (cs) pl
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: amaskomunikiloj, mediato
• Finnish: tiedotusväline (fi), viestin (fi), media (fi)
• Galician: medios m pl
• Hungarian: média (hu)
• Icelandic: miðill (is) m
• Macedonian: меди́уми m pl (medíumi)

• Malay: media
• Maori: pāpāhotanga
• Pashto: رسنۍ‎ (ps) pl or f (rësënai)
• Persian: مدیا‎ (mediá), رسانه‎ (fa) (rasāne)
• Polish: media (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: mídia (pt) f (Brazil), média (pt) m pl, media (pt) m pl
• Russian: ме́диа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios (es) pl
• Swedish: media (sv) n pl
• Vietnamese: phương tiện truyền thông

the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry

• Arabic: وَسَائِل اَلْإِعْلَام‎ pl (wasāʾil al-ʾiʿlām), إِعْلَام‎ m (ʾiʿlām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 媒體 (zh), 媒体 (zh) (méitǐ), 傳媒 (zh), 传媒 (zh) (chuánméi)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tiedotusvälineet, viestimet, media (fi)
• French: médias (fr) m pl
• German: Medien (de) n pl
• Greek: μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης n pl (mésa mazikís enimérosis) (ΜΜΕ (el) (MME))
• Hindi: संचार माध्यम (sañcār mādhyam)

• Icelandic: miðill (is) m
• Japanese: メディア (ja) (media), 媒体 (ja) (baitai)
• Korean: 미디어 (ko) (midieo), 매체 (ko) (maeche) (媒體 (ko))
• Macedonian: меди́уми m pl or f pl (medíumi)
• Pashto: رسنۍ‎ (ps) pl or f (rësënai)
• Persian: رسانه‎ (fa) (resâne, rasâne), مدیا‎ (mediá)
• Portuguese: mídia (pt) f (Brazil), média (pt) m pl, media (pt) m pl
• Russian: сре́дства ма́ссовой информа́ции (ru) n pl (srédstva mássovoj informácii), (abbreviation) СМИ (ru) (SMI), масс-ме́диа (ru) pl (mass-média), ме́диа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios de comunicación pl
• Swedish: press (sv) c, media (sv) n pl

Further reading

• "media" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 203.

Anagrams

• Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

media

1. Plural form of medium

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Esperanto

Etymology

From medio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdia/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

Adjective

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

1. environmental

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Finnish

Etymology

From English media.

Noun

media

1. media

Declension

Inflection of media (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		media	mediat
genitive		median	medioiden medioitten
partitive		mediaa	medioita
illative		mediaan	medioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		media	mediat
accusative	nom.	media	mediat
	gen.	median
genitive		median	medioiden medioitten mediainrare
partitive		mediaa	medioita
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

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin media.

Noun

media f (plural medias)

1. average

Related terms

• medio

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Italian

Adjective

media

1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin media.

Noun

media f (plural medie)

1. average, mean (especially an overall, average grade)

Noun

media m (invariable)

1. media

Synonyms

• mass media

Verb

media

1. third-person singular present 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. vocative neuter plural of medius

Adjective

mediā

1. ablative feminine singular of medius

References

• media in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

media

1. media

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mediene

Noun

media n

1. definite plural of medium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

media n

1. definite plural of medium

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛd.ja/

Noun

media pl

1. plural of medium
2. media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information)

Declension

declension of media

	plural
nominative	media
genitive	mediów
dative	mediom
accusative	media
instrumental	mediami
locative	mediach
vocative	media

Further reading

• media in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English media, mass media.

Noun

media m pl (plural only)

1. (Portugal, journalism) Alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)

Usage notes

Both media and média are used in European Portuguese, with media being the more common form, often italicized to denote the foreign origin and to distinguish it from the verb form of medir. In Brazilian Portuguese the variant mídia, in the singular, is often used.

Synonyms

• (mass media): mídia (Brazil)

Etymology 2

Verb

media

1. first-person singular imperfect of medir
2. third-person singular imperfect of medir

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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

Conjugation

    conjugation of media (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a media
gerund			mediind
past participle			mediat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	mediez	mediezi	mediază	mediem	mediați	mediază
	imperfect	mediam	mediai	media	mediam	mediați	mediau
	simple perfect	mediai	mediași	medie	mediarăm	mediarăți	mediară
	pluperfect	mediasem	mediaseși	mediase	mediaserăm	mediaserăți	mediaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să mediez	să mediezi	să medieze	să mediem	să mediați	să medieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		mediază			mediați
	negative		nu media			nu mediați

Related terms

• mediator

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin media.

Noun

media f (plural medias)

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

   son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.

5. sharecrop

Usage notes

• (pantyhose): Often more used in the plural forms with the same meaning.

Synonyms

• (pantyhose): panti f, pantimedia f

Adjective

media f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

Verb

media

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mediar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form 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)