media

See also: média, medía, and Media

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mē'diə, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdiə/
• 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

Antonyms

• (voiced stop): tenuis

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 has 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 bombards them with questions.

Derived terms

Terms derived from media

media darling media event noun mediagenic adj

mediascape noun multimedia mass media

mainstream media media circus media whore

Translations

means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 媒體 (zh) (méitǐ)

• Czech: média pl
• Hungarian: média (hu)
• Macedonian: медиуми m pl (medíumi)

• Malay: media
• Portuguese: mídia (pt)
• Russian: медиа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios (es) pl

the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry

• Arabic: وسائل الإعلام pl (wasāʾil al-ʾiʿlām)
• Chinese:

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

• 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

• Japanese: メディア (ja) (media), 媒体 (ja) (baitai)
• Korean: 미디어 (ko) (midieo), 매체 (ko) (maeche) (媒體 (ko))
• Macedonian: медиуми m pl, f pl (medíumi)
• Persian: رسانه (fa) (resâne, rasâne)
• Portuguese: mídia (pt) f
• Russian: средства массовой информации n pl (srédstva mássovoj informácii), (abbreviation) СМИ (ru) (SMI), масс-медиа (ru) pl (mass-média), медиа (ru) pl (média)
• Spanish: medios de comunicación 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 (Kotus type 12/kulkija)

	singular	plural
nominative	media	mediat
genitive	median	medioiden medioitten mediainrare
partitive	mediaa	medioita
accusative	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

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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 (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

mediā

1. ablative feminine singular of medius

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Portuguese

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

Related terms

• mediator

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin medius

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

1. third-person singular present 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)