media

media · noun¹

1. Spanish · borrowed frommedia
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*médʰyos“between”
3. Proto-Italic · derived from*meðjos
4. Latin · learned borrowing frommedia
5. English todaymedia

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

media · noun, noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*médʰyos“between”
2. Proto-Italic · derived from*meðjos
3. Latin · derived frommedia
4. English todaymedia

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

media · adjective³

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).

Media · proper noun⁴

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*médʰyos“middle”
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromΜηδία
3. Latin · borrowed fromMēdia
4. English todayMedia

Borrowed from Latin Mēdia, from Ancient Greek Μηδία (Mēdía), from Μῆδος (Mêdos), from *Mada (vocalization uncertain), the Old Median language self-designator signifying speakers of the Median language. Compare Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎭 (Māda). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) i.e. central kingdom, cognate with Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya).

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