mediety

English

Etymology

From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈdaɪ.ɪti/

Noun

mediety (plural medieties)

1. (obsolete) The middle part; half; moiety.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     [creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below

   • 1846, Alfred Inigo Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, page 282:

     The rectory of Pakefield was in medieties from a period before the Norman Conquest, each mediety having its patron, who presented to his portion upon every vacancy in succession, and not in alternate patronage;

2. Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.