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- Latin · borrowed frommediastīnus“a common servant”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed frommediastīnus“middling; middle”
- New Latin · borrowed frommediastīnum
- English todaymediastinum
From New Latin mediastīnum, from Medieval Latin mediastīnus (“middling; middle”), from Latin mediastīnus (“a common servant”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.