meia

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Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmej.ɐ/ [ˈmeɪ̯.ɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmej.a/ [ˈmeɪ̯.a]
 

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese meya, from Latin media, feminine of medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Doublet of média.

Noun[edit]

meia f (plural meias)

  1. sock (covering for the foot; originally short form of meia-calça)
    Synonyms: (Rio Grande do Sul) carpim, (Portugal) peúga
  2. (Brazil) Ellipsis of meia-entrada. (a ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children)
    Synonym: meia-entrada
  3. (Portugal, historical) obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
  4. (when reading a time) half past (short form of meia hora)
    O evento termina às três e meia.
    The event ends at half past three.
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Related terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

meia m or f by sense (plural meias)

  1. (Brazil, soccer) midfielder
    Synonyms: (Portugal) médio, meio-campista

Adjective[edit]

meia

  1. feminine singular of meio
Descendants[edit]
  • Kadiwéu: meeya

Adverb[edit]

meia

  1. (hypercorrect) Misconstruction of meio
    Estou *meia cansada. ― I'm a bit tired.
Usage notes[edit]
  • The word meia, as an adverb, appears in vulgar speech because of a confusion about the role of meio. In this case, whenever meio, as an adverb, lies right before a feminine adjective, it is confused for an adjective as well, hence hypercorrected into the feminine declension meia. In standard speech, however, Portuguese adverbs are never inflected by grammatical gender.

Numeral[edit]

meia

  1. (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)
    Synonyms: meia-dúzia, seis

Further reading[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

meia

  1. inflection of mear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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