Etymology

mediant

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Today it means: The third degree of the diatonic scale. Full definition →

Italian mediante ← Latin mediānt- ← Proto-Italic *meðios
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*medʰyo-“between”
  2. Proto-Italic · derived from*meðios
  3. Latin · derived frommediānt-“being in the middle”
  4. Italian · borrowed frommediante
  5. English todaymediant

From Italian mediante, from Latin mediānt- (“being in the middle”), present active participle of mediō (“to be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).

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