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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- meya (obsolete)
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Portuguese meya, from Latin media, feminine of medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).
Adjective[edit]
meia
- Feminine singular of adjective meio.
Descendants[edit]
- Kadiwéu: meeya
Adverb[edit]
meia
- (hypercorrect) Misconstruction of meio
- Estou *meia cansada. (cf. "Estou meio 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.
Noun[edit]
meia f (plural meias)
- sock (covering for the foot; originally short form of meia-calça)
- (Brazil) a ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children (short form of meia-entrada)
- (Portugal) obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
- (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.
- O evento termina às três e meia.
meia m, f (plural meias)
Synonyms[edit]
- (sock): carpim (Rio Grande do Sul), peúga (Portugal)
- (ticket sold for half its normal price): meia-entrada
- (midfielder): meio-campista
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Numeral[edit]
meia
- (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)
Synonyms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected form of mear (“to half”).
Verb[edit]
meia
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