Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. · A voiced stop consonant. · One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus. · An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
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