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6-letter words (1 found)

MEDIUS,

5-letter words (6 found)

DEISM,DIMES,DISME,MUIDS,MUSED,SEDUM,

4-letter words (23 found)

DESI,DEUS,DIES,DIME,DIMS,DUES,EMUS,IDEM,IDES,MEDS,MEUS,MIDS,MISE,MUDS,MUID,MUSE,SEMI,SIDE,SUED,SUID,SUMI,UMES,USED,

3-letter words (31 found)

DEI,DIE,DIM,DIS,DUE,DUI,DUM,EDS,EMS,EMU,IDE,IDS,ISM,MED,MES,MEU,MID,MIS,MUD,MUS,SED,SEI,SIM,SUD,SUE,SUI,SUM,UDS,UME,UMS,USE,

2-letter words (13 found)

DE,DI,ED,EM,ES,ID,IS,ME,MI,MU,SI,UM,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from medius according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of medius

medius

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin from Latin medius (“middle”). See medium. Doublet of minge and middle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiːdi.əs/

Noun

medius (plural medii)

  1. (anatomy, dated) The middle finger.

See also

References

  • “medius”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos), Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maiδiiāna), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ), Persian میان (miân) and Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.us/, [ˈmɛd̪iʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.us/, [ˈmɛːd̪ius]

Adjective

medius (feminine media, neuter medium, comparative magis medius or medior, superlative medioximus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. middle, mid, the middle of, the midst of, central, between, midway between, in the center
    media pars corporis; medium corpus ― the waist
    media nox ― midnight
    media urbs ― the middle of the city
    urbs media ― the middle city
    in mediās rēs ― into the middle of things
  2. half
  3. moderate
  4. indifferent, undecided

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “medius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “medius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • medius 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)
  • medius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “medius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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