medietas
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Predominantly Late Latin. From medius + -tās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meˈdi.e.taːs/, [mɛˈd̪iɛt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.e.tas/, [meˈd̪iːet̪äs]
Noun
[edit]medietās f (genitive medietātis); third declension
- the center, middle part of something, midpoint
- (transferred sense) half
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | medietās | medietātēs |
| genitive | medietātis | medietātum |
| dative | medietātī | medietātibus |
| accusative | medietātem | medietātēs |
| ablative | medietāte | medietātibus |
| vocative | medietās | medietātēs |
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aromanian: giumitati
- Catalan: meitat
- Friulian: mitât
- Italian: metà
- Occitan: meitat, mitat
- Old French: meitié, mitié, meitiet
- Old Galician-Portuguese: meiadade, meetade
- Portuguese: metade
- Old Leonese: meetat, mjtat, mejtat, meatat, meatade, meetad
- Romanian: jumătate
- Romansch: mited, mità
- Sardinian: meidade, meitate, metadi, midade
- Sicilian: mità, mitati
- Spanish: meitad, mitad
- → French: médiété
- → Italian: medietà
- → Middle English: medietee
- English: mediety
References
[edit]- “mĕdĭĕtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- medietas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mĕdĭĕtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 958/1.
- “medietās” on page 1,089 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “medietas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 666–7