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metade

metade

Galician

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

  1. a half

See also


Mirandese

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

  1. half

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (center; midpoint), from Latin medius (middle; half), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (between).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.ˈta.d͡ʒi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /me.ˈta.de/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.ˈta.ðɨ/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de
  • Rhymes: -adʒi

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

  1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)
  2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes)
  3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)
  4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

Synonyms

  • (midpoint): centro, meio
  • (time between the beginning and the end): meio

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Swedish

Verb

metade

  1. past tense of meta.