medianus
Latin
Etymology
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
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
Descendants
- → Catalan: mediana
- Friulian: mezan
- → mediano
- Italian: mezzano
- → Spanish: mesana
- → mediano
- Ladin: mesan
- → Middle French: median
- Occitan: mejan
- Old Catalan: mitjan
- Old Catalan: mitjana (< Latin mediāna)
- Old French: meien
- Old Galician-Portuguese: meão
- → Portuguese: mediano
- Romanian: mezin; → median (possibly)
- Sicilian: mizzanu, minzanu
- Spanish: mejana, mezana; → mediano
- Venetian: mexan
- → Irish: meán
- → Welsh: mewn
References
- “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.