medo
Esperanto
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *meduz. Compare English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέδος (médos), Latin mēdus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmedo]
- Rhymes: -edo
- Hyphenation: me‧do
Noun
medo (accusative singular medon, plural medoj, accusative plural medojn)
- mead
- Synonym: mielakvo
See also
- teĝo
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese medo, from Latin metus. Cognate with Portuguese medo, Asturian mieu, Spanish miedo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmeðʊ]
Noun
medo m (uncountable)
- fear
- Synonym: temor
Derived terms
- medoento
- medoso
See also
- Medo
References
- “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “medo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “medo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “medo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Mēdus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos), from an Iranian language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛdo
- Hyphenation: mè‧do
Adjective
medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medi, feminine plural mede)
- (historical) Median (pertaining to Media or Medes)
Noun
medo m (plural medi, feminine meda)
- (historical) Mede, Median (person from Media)
Noun
medo m (uncountable)
- Median (language)
Further reading
- medo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- demo, demo-, mode
Japanese
Romanization
medo
- Rōmaji transcription of めど
Middle English
Noun
medo
- Alternative form of medwe
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀫𑁂𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
- मेदो (Devanagari script)
- মেদো (Bengali script)
- මෙදො (Sinhalese script)
- မေဒေါ or မေၻေႃ (Burmese script)
- เมโท (Thai script)
- ᨾᩮᨴᩮᩣ or ᨾᩮᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
- ເມໂທ (Lao script)
- មេទោ (Khmer script)
- 𑄟𑄬𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)
Noun
medo
- nominative singular of meda (“fat”)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- mêdo (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese medo, from Latin metus (“fear”). Compare Spanish miedo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈme.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈme.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈme.du/ [ˈme.ðu]
Noun
medo m (plural medos)
- fear (emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat)
- Não tenho medo.
- I'm not afraid.
- Estamos com medo.
- We are afraid.
- 2007, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte, Rocco, page 317:
- Desculpe, acho que dá mais medo se for meia-noite!
- I'm sorry, I thought that it would be more fearsome if it were midnight!
Related terms
- medroso
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Derived from medved
Noun
medo n (Cyrillic spelling медо)
- bear
- teddy bear
Spanish
Adjective
medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medos, feminine plural medas)
- (historical, relational) of Media; Mede (of or relating to historical Media)
Noun
medo m (plural medos, feminine meda, feminine plural medas)
- Mede (native or resident of historical Media)
Related terms
- Media
Further reading
- “medo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014