Median

See also: median, médian, medían, and medián

English

Alternative forms

• Medean

Etymology

From Media +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪən/

Adjective

Median (not comparable)

1. Relating to Media or Medes. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them […].

2. (obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:

     ‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’

   • 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 50:

     And if you venture to object to these Median laws, – as I am now doing, – you elicit a chorus of disapproval, and acquire some evil name.

Translations

relating to Media or Medes

• Armenian: մարական (hy) (marakan), մեդական (hy) (medakan)
• Catalan: mede (ca) m, mèdic (ca) m
• Danish: medisk
• Finnish: meedialainen (fi)
• German: medisch (de)
• Irish: Méideach
• Russian: мидийский (ru) (midijskij)

Noun

Median (plural Medians)

1. A Mede.

Translations

Mede — see Mede

Proper noun

Median

1. The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.

Synonyms

• Medic

Translations

language

• Armenian: մարերեն (hy) (mareren), մեդերեն (mederen)
• Catalan: mèdic (ca) m
• Czech: médština f
• Danish: medisk
• Finnish: meedia (fi)
• German: Medisch n
• Irish: Méidis f
• Persian: مادی (fa) (mâdi)
• Russian: мидийский (ru) (midijskij)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Median terms
• Median on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-3 code xme (SIL)
• Linguist List entry for Median, code xme

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdi̯aːn/

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Noun

Median m (strong, genitive Medians, plural Mediane)

1. (statistics) median (measure of central tendency)

   Synonym: Zentralwert

Declension

Declension of Median [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Median	die	Mediane
genitive	eines	des	Medians	der	Mediane
dative	einem	dem	Median	den	Medianen
accusative	einen	den	Median	die	Mediane

Further reading

• “Median” in Duden online