meia
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- meya (obsolete)
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese meya, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin media, feminine of medius (“middle; half”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).
Adjective
meia
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective meio.
Descendants
- Kadiwéu: meeya
Adverb
meia
- (hypercorrect) Misconstruction of meio
- Estou *meia cansada. (cf. "Estou meio cansada.")
- I'm a bit tired.
Usage notes
- 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
meia f (plural s)
- 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 or f (plural s)
Synonyms
- (sock): carpim (Rio Grande do Sul), peúga (Portugal)
- (ticket sold for half its normal price): meia-entrada
- (midfielder): meio-campista
Derived terms
Related terms
Numeral
meia
- (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of mear (“to half”).
Verb
meia
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