meia
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[edit]Pronunciation
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Audio (Brazil): (file) Audio (Portugal): (file) Audio (Northern Portugal): (file) - Rhymes: -ejɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɐ
- Hyphenation: mei‧a
Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]meia
Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of meia-calça; compare Catalan mitja and Spanish media for similar developments. Doublet of média and mídia.
Noun
[edit]meia f (plural meias)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Clipping of meia-entrada.
Noun
[edit]meia f (plural meias)
- (Brazil) A ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children
- Synonym: meia-entrada
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]meia f (plural meias)
- (Portugal, historical) obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
- (when telling time) half past (short form of meia hora)
- O evento termina às três e meia.
- The event ends at half past three.
Noun
[edit]meia m or f by sense (plural meias)
- (Brazil, soccer) midfielder
- Synonyms: (Portugal) médio, meio-campista
Adverb
[edit]meia
- (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.
Etymology 5
[edit]Clipping of meia dúzia (“half a dozen”).
Numeral
[edit]meia
- (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três)
- Synonyms: meia-dúzia, seis
Etymology 6
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]meia
- inflection of mear:
Further reading
[edit]- “meia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “meia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “meia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “meia”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
meia on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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