Meaning and Origin
What does the name Media mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Media
User Submitted Origins
Kurdish
44%
Persian/Iranian
25%
Arabic
19%
Greek
6%
Italian
6%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Iran, Islamic Republic of says the name Media means "A girl/boy from Medes. A flower that grows between rocks".
- A submission from Canada says the name Media means "Median empire".
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun me"di*a
Senses
- The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, [Computers] place your installation media into the device which will read it; [Microbiology] the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media .
- The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.
noun ‖Me"di*a
Senses
- [Phonetics] One of the sonant mutes β, δ, γ (bdg), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, π, τ, κ (ptk), and the aspiratæaspirates) φ, θ, χ (ph or fthch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.
Etymology: NL., fr. L. medius middle
Wiktionary
From Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius (“middle”, adj).
- (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
- (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
- (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Plural of medium, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius (“middle”, adj).
- plural of medium
- (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment and, second, web-based , traditional print-based has declined in popularity.
- (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
- Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the bombards them with questions.
media was also found in the following language(s): Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Galician, Italian, Latin, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish