média

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See also: media, Media, medía, and mediá

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.dja/
  • Audio (Vosges):(file)

Etymology 1

Shortened from English mass media.

Noun

média m (plural médias)

  1. media
    L’association a appris à maîtriser les médias.
    The association has learned to control the media.
  2. (media) outlet
    un média de propagande russe / américaina Russian/American propaganda outlet
Usage notes
  • (media in general): Typically in the plural.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

média m

  1. plural of médium

Etymology 3

Verb

média

  1. third-person singular past historic of médier

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

From English (mass) media.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

média (plural médiák)

  1. media (television, newspapers, etc.)
  2. media (formats for presenting information)

Usage notes

Some do not use the plural version.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative média médiák
accusative médiát médiákat
dative médiának médiáknak
instrumental médiával médiákkal
causal-final médiáért médiákért
translative médiává médiákká
terminative médiáig médiákig
essive-formal médiaként médiákként
essive-modal
inessive médiában médiákban
superessive médián médiákon
adessive médiánál médiáknál
illative médiába médiákba
sublative médiára médiákra
allative médiához médiákhoz
elative médiából médiákból
delative médiáról médiákról
ablative médiától médiáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
médiáé médiáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
médiáéi médiákéi
Possessive forms of média
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. médiám médiáim
2nd person sing. médiád médiáid
3rd person sing. médiája médiái
1st person plural médiánk médiáink
2nd person plural médiátok médiáitok
3rd person plural médiájuk médiáik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒi.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒjɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒi.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒja/

Etymology 1

Feminine of médio (medium), from Latin medius, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (between).

Noun

média f (plural médias)

  1. (statistics) average
    1. arithmetic mean
    2. measure of central tendency
  2. (education) the score necessary to go from one grade to another
  3. (Brazil) coffee with milk
  4. (Brazil, Baixada Santista) pão francês
Derived terms

Adjective

média

  1. feminine singular of médio

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English media, mass media.

Noun

média m pl (plural only)

  1. (Portugal, journalism) media; mass media
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