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Medium Latin English Medius Neuter Medial Middle Adjective

正面 3263.medium
英 ['miːdɪəm]美 ['midɪəm]

背面
释义:
adj. 中间的,中等的;半生熟的n. 方法;媒体;媒介;中间物
例句:
1. Choose a soft, medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.针对他们各人不同的需要挑选柔软、软硬适中或者坚硬的床垫。

1. 正因为是奇数,所以才不平等、不对等,所以才会有几率、胜算的可能性存在,如果平分秋色的话,就没有几率、胜算可言了。
medium 中间的,媒体,媒介来自拉丁语medius,中间的,词源同middle,-um,表中性。引申词义中间物,媒介,媒体等。
mediummedium: [16] Latin medius meant ‘middle’ (it came from an Indo-European source that also produced English mid and middle). Its neuter form, used as a noun, has given English medium, but it has made several other contributions to the language, including mean ‘average’, medial [16], median [16], mediate [16] (and its derivatives immediate [16] – etymologically ‘acting directly, without any mediation’ – and intermediate [17]), medieval [19] (literally ‘of the Middle Ages’), mediocre, meridian, mitten, and moiety.Its Italian descendant is mezzo ‘half’, which has given English intermezzo [19], mezzanine [18], mezzosoprano [18], and mezzotint [18].=> immediate, intermezzo, mean, median, mediate, middle, mittenmedium (n.)1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from Latin medium "the middle, midst, center; interval," noun use of neuter of adjective medius (see medial (adj.)). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from c. 1600. That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from 1854. Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas.medium (adj.)1660s, "average," from medium (n.). The Latin adjective was medius. Meaning "intermediate" is from 1796. As a size designation from 1711. as a designation of cooked meat, it is attested from 1931, short for medium-rare (1881)."

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