adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- medial allegation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
medial
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/ˈmiː.di.əl/
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rhymes with -iːdiəl
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CMU ARPABET: M IY1 D IY0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: M IY1 D Y AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology, zootomy
Examples
- The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: lateral
adj
Meaning 3
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
Examples
- Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 5
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
(of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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adj
Meaning 6
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
(of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 7
Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
Closer to the addressee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: median
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 11
dividing an animal into right and left halves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: median
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-? Proto-Indo-European *-dhe Proto-Indo-European *médhi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médhyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin mediālisbor. English medial Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: среден (sreden) — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Finnish: keskimääräinen — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Finnish: keski- — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- German: mittel — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Hungarian: középső — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Hungarian: közép- — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Polish: średni — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Romanian: intermediar — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Romanian: median — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Russian: сре́дний (srédnij) — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Spanish: medio — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Spanish: medial — of or pertaining to a mean or average
- Bulgarian: среден (sreden) — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Finnish: keski- — in or near the middle; not at either end
- German: zentral — in or near the middle; not at either end
- German: mittig — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Polish: środkowy — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Polish: centralny — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Romanian: median — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Spanish: medial — in or near the middle; not at either end
- Czech: přístřední — closer to the median plane or midline
- Czech: mediální — closer to the median plane or midline
- Finnish: mediaalinen — closer to the median plane or midline
- Finnish: sisäpuolinen — closer to the median plane or midline
- German: medial — closer to the median plane or midline
- German: median — closer to the median plane or midline
- Greek: έσω (éso) — closer to the median plane or midline
- Hungarian: belső — closer to the median plane or midline
- Hungarian: bel- — closer to the median plane or midline
- Hungarian: mediális — closer to the median plane or midline
- Polish: przyśrodkowy — closer to the median plane or midline
- Romanian: median — closer to the median plane or midline
- Russian: медиа́льный (mediálʹnyj) — closer to the median plane or midline
- Russian: среди́нный (sredínnyj) — closer to the median plane or midline
- Spanish: medial — closer to the median plane or midline
- Finnish: keski- — of a consonant, central
- German: zentral — of a consonant, central
- Polish: środkowy — of a consonant, central
- Polish: centralny — of a consonant, central
- Romanian: medial — of a consonant, central
- Spanish: medial — of a consonant, central
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