metade

• metá (superseded)

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”).

• IPA^(key): [meˈtaðɪ], [meˈta]

metade f (plural metades)

1. a half

• medio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “metade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “metade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “metade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “metade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “metade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

metade f (plural metades)

1. half

• ametade (obsolete or colloquial)

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Compare Spanish mitad.

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de

metade f (plural metades)

1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)
   • 2017, “Esú”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:

     Metade homem, metade Deus / E os dois sentem medo de mim

     Half man, half God / And both are afraid of me

2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes)

   Synonyms: centro, meio

3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)

   Synonym: meio

4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

   Antonym: dobro

• cara-metade
• fazer pela metade

metade

1. past indicative of meta