Spanish word
medio
/ˈmedjo/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 156 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- means
- half (any fraction with a denominator of 2)
- medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L)
- medio (the usual container used to measure medios)
- medio, half-real (a former coin)Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela
- medio, half-peso (a former coin)Dominican-Republic
- medio, half-sucre (a former coin)Ecuador
- medio, half-balboa (a former coin)Panama
- medio, half-boliviano (a former coin)Bolivia
- medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to ¹⁄₁₆ real)Mexico
- medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of 6+¹⁄₄ centavos as half of the notional amount of a ¹⁄₈-peseta real and later by extension any 5 centavo coin)Costa-Rica, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, slang
- middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space)
- midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer)
- environment(software or hardware on a computer)
- mean(method by which something is done)
- medium(nature of the surrounding environment)
- middle(centre, midpoint)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)