médium

Borrowed from Latin medium. The sense of "person who contacts the dead" is probably a semantic loan from English medium. Doublet of mi-.

• IPA^(key): /me.djɔm/

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médium m (plural médiums)

1. (music) middle register
2. (spiritualism, parapsychology) medium (a person who contacts the dead)

• médiumnique
• médiumnité

• → Turkish: medyum

• “médium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ultimately from Latin medium (“middle”), via English medium or French médium. Doublet of meio and médio.

• Hyphenation: mé‧di‧um

médium m or f by sense (plural médiuns)

1. (spiritualism) medium (a person who contacts the dead)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:médium.

Borrowed from English medium (“middle”), possibly via English medium. Doublet of medio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmedjum/ [ˈme.ð̞jũm]
• Rhymes: -edjum
• Syllabification: mé‧dium

médium m or f by sense (plural médiums)

1. (spiritualism) medium (a person who claims to be able to communicate with the dead)

   Synonym: medio

• “médium”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024