media

See also: Media, média, medía, and mediá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowing 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.
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.

Derived terms

• tunica media
• medial

Synonyms

• (vein of insect wing): M

Antonyms

• (voiced stop): tenuis

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

Terms derived from media

• 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
• Galician: medios m pl
• Hungarian: média (hu)
• Icelandic: miðill (is) m
• Macedonian: меди́уми m pl (medíumi)

• Malay: media
• Pashto: رسنۍ‏‎ (ps) pl, f (rësënai)
• Persian: مدیا‏‎ (mediá)
• 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

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)

• 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, f pl (medíumi)
• Pashto: رسنۍ‏‎ (ps) pl, 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

Anagrams

• Maedi, aimed, amide, maide

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Dutch

Noun

media

1. Plural form of medium

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Esperanto

Etymology

From medi- +‎ -a.

Adjective

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

1. environmental

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Finnish

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

Noun

media f (plural medias)

1. average

Related terms

• medio

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Italian

Adjective

media f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective medio.

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

mediā

1. ablative feminine singular of medius

References

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “media”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre

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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): /mɛˈdi.a/

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

Borrowing from English media, mass media.

Noun

media m pl (plurale tantum)

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

Synonyms

• (mass media): mídia (Brazil)

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

media

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing 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. (usually in the plural) pantyhose
3. (mathematics) mean, average
4. half an hour

   son las cinco y media ― it’s 5:30.

5. sharecrop

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)