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medio

medio noun: a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L.

Noun

medio (plural medios)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L.
  2. (historical) Any of various former Spanish and Latin American half-pieces, particularly the half-real both as a coin and a notional unit of account.

Synonyms of medio

Forms of medio

pluralmedios

Origin of medio

From Spanish medio (“half, half-celemin, half-real, etc.”), from Latin medius (“half”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Doublet of medium, media, and mediate.

Questions about medio

What does medio mean?
Medio means a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L.
What part of speech is medio?
Medio is a noun.
What is the plural of medio?
The plural of medio is medios.

Words near medio in the dictionary

  1. Medinese
  2. Medini
  3. Medinipur
  4. Medinipur division
  5. Medins
  6. medio
  7. medio-
  8. Medio-Late Egyptian
  9. medio-passive
  10. medio-passivization
  11. medioanterior

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