metade

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Galician

Galician numbers (edit)
20[a], [b]
2 3  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal (standard / feminine): dúas
    Cardinal (reintegrationist / feminine): duas
    Cardinal (masculine): dous
    Ordinal: segundo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 2º
    Multiplier (standard): (noun) dobre
    Multiplier (reintegrationist): (noun) dobro
    Multiplier: (adjective) duplo
    Fractional (standard): (adjective) medio
    Fractional (reintegrationist): (adjective) meio
    Fractional: (noun) metade
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Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

  1. a half

See also

References

  • “metade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “metade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “metade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “metade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “metade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Mirandese

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

  1. half

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

 

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Swedish

Verb

metade

  1. past indicative of meta
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