medietas

Latin

Etymology

Predominantly Late Latin. From medius +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈdi.e.taːs/, [mɛˈd̪iɛt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈdi.e.tas/, [meˈd̪iːet̪äs]

Noun

medietās f (genitive medietātis); third declension

1. the center, middle part of something, midpoint
2. (transferred sense) half

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	medietās	medietātēs
Genitive	medietātis	medietātum
Dative	medietātī	medietātibus
Accusative	medietātem	medietātēs
Ablative	medietāte	medietātibus
Vocative	medietās	medietātēs

Synonyms

• (middle part): medium
• (half): dīmidium

Descendants

• Aromanian: giumitati
• Catalan: meitat
• Friulian: mitât
• Italian: metà
• Occitan: meitat, mitat
• Old French: meitié, mitié, meitiet
  • Middle French: moytié
    • French: moitié
    • → English: moiety
• Old Galician-Portuguese: meiadade, meetade
  • Portuguese: metade
• Old Leonese: meetat, mjtat, meatat, meatad
  • Asturian: metá
  • Extremaduran: metá
  • Leonese: mitá, metá
  • Mirandese: metade
• Romanian: jumătate
• Romansch: mited, mità
• Sardinian: meidade, meitate, metadi, midade
• Sicilian: mità, mitati
• Spanish: meitad, mitad
• → French: médiété
• → Italian: medietà
• → Middle English: medietee
  • English: mediety

References

• “mĕdĭĕtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “medietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medietas 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)
• mĕdĭĕtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 958/1.
• “medietās” on page 1,089 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “medietas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 666–7