Medio

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

Etymology

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.

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