med.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

形容詞

med (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

2. Clipping of median

派生語

名詞

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:

     Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
     Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
     Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
     Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

   • 2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

     Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.

   • 2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:

     “What meds?”
     “It's a long story.”
     “What meds?”
     “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”

   • 2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR‎:

     “I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.

2. (informal, uncountable) Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.

   My brother studied med at Cambridge.

3. (informal, countable) A medic; a doctor.
   • 2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:

     A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.

派生語

動詞

med

1. Clipping of medicate

派生語

語源 2

動詞

med

1. (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.
   • 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

アナグラム

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

発音

• IPA: /meːd/

名詞

mēd f

1. reward
   • c. 475 C.E., Undley bracteate:

     ᚷᚫᚷᚩᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᚫᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᛖᛞᚢ

     gægogæ mægæ medu

     (possible translations:)
     • this she-wolf is a reward to a kinsman
     • abracadabra: to a kinsman this reward

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: mede, meede
  • English: meed
  • Scots: med

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

語源 2

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

語源 3

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“reward”)

語源 4

前置詞

med

1. alternative form of mid

形容詞

med

1. alternative form of mid

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmeːd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛd]
• ハイフネーション: mēd

代名詞

mēd

1. (pre-classical) accusative/ablative singular of egō̆

接頭辞

med-

1. middle, mediocre, average (often carrying a negative connotation)

   medstrang ― of middle rank

   medmiċel ― medium-sized, moderate, unimportant, poor

   medtrum ― weak, inferior

   medwīs ― foolish, stupid