Medio
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L. historical
- 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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