metade

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”).

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. a half

See also

• medio

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Mirandese

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. half

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ametade (obsolete or colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ˈta.d͡ʒi/
• IPA^(key): /me.ˈta.de/
• IPA^(key): /mɨ.ˈta.ðɨ/
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de
• Rhymes: -adʒi

Noun

metade f (plural s)

1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)
2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes)
3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)
4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

Synonyms

• (midpoint): centro, meio
• (time between the beginning and the end): meio

Antonyms

• (fraction): dobro

Derived terms

• cara-metade
• fazer pela metade

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Swedish

Verb

metade

1. (deprecated template usage) past tense of meta.