metade

Galician

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Cardinal (standard / feminine): dúas     Cardinal (reintegrationist / feminine): duas     Cardinal (masculine): dous     Ordinal: segundo     Ordinal abbreviation: 2º     Multiplier (standard): (noun) dobre     Multiplier (reintegrationist): (noun) dobro     Multiplier: (adjective) duplo     Fractional (standard): (adjective) medio     Fractional (reintegrationist): (adjective) meio     Fractional: (noun) metade
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Alternative forms

• metá (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem, accusative singular of medietās (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈtaðɪ], [meˈta]

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. a half

See also

• medio

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “metade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “metade”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “metade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “metade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “metade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Mirandese

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. half

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ametade (obsolete or colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Compare Spanish mitad.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈta.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈta.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈta.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈta.dɨ/ [mɨˈta.ðɨ]

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧de

Noun

metade f (plural metades)

1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)
   • 2017, “Esú”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:

     Metade homem, metade Deus / E os dois sentem medo de mim

     Half man, half God / And both are afraid of me

2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes)

   Synonyms: centro, meio

3. middle (time between the beginning and the end)

   Synonym: meio

4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)

   Antonym: dobro

Derived terms

• cara-metade
• fazer pela metade

Further reading

• “metade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “metade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Swedish

Verb

metade

1. past indicative of meta