medi

Borrowed from Latin medium (“middle”). Doublet of mèdium, another learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɛ.ði]

medi m (plural medis)

1. medium (substance through which another passes)
2. environment

   Synonym: entorn

3. medium (person who communicates with ghosts)

   Synonym: mèdium

• medi ambient

• intermedi
• mediar
• mig

• “medi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

medi

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of medir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

From Portuguese medo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu medu.

medi

1. to fear

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di/
• Rhymes: -ɛdi
• Hyphenation: mè‧di

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

medi m pl

1. masculine plural of medio

medi m pl

1. plural of medio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

medi

1. inflection of mediare:
   1. second-person singular present
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

medi m pl

1. masculine plural of medo

medi m pl

1. plural of medo

• IDEM, dime, idem

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæːdɪ]

mẽdi

1. vocative singular of medis

medi

1. water

• Edward Steere, Collections for a handbook of the Makonde language (1876)
• African Languages: Langues Africaines, volume 5 (1979), page 144

medi

1. alternative form of meden

medi

1. inflection of medir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɟi]

medi f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of meď

mẹ́di or médi

1. second-person singular imperative of mesti

From Middle Welsh medel, from Proto-Brythonic *medel, from Proto-Celtic *meteti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.

See also Cornish mysi, Breton mediñ; also English meadow, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdi/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːdi/, /ˈmɛdi/

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medi (first-person singular present medaf)

1. to reap
   • c. 1800, attributed to Wil Hopcyn, "Bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn":

     Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn
     Ac arall yn ei fedi.

     I’m watching the white wheat
     And someone else is reaping it.

• Medi (“September”)

• medel (“reaping party, work group”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “medi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies