Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L. · Any of various former Spanish and Latin American half-pieces, particularly the half-real both as a coin and a notional unit of account.
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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