medium: [16] Latin medius meant ‘middle’ (it came from an Indo-European source that also produced English mid and middle). Its neuter form, used as a noun, has given English medium, but it has made several other contributions to the language, including mean ‘average’, medial [16], median [16], mediate [16] (and its derivatives immediate [16] – etymologically ‘acting directly, without any mediation’ – and intermediate [17]), medieval [19] (literally ‘of the Middle Ages’), mediocre, meridian, mitten, and moiety.
Its Italian descendant is mezzo ‘half’, which has given English intermezzo [19], mezzanine [18], mezzosoprano [18], and mezzotint [18]. => immediate, intermezzo, mean, median, mediate, middle, mitten
medium (n.)
1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from Latin medium "the middle, midst, center; interval," noun use of neuter of adjective medius (see medial (adj.)). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from c. 1600. That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from 1854. Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas.
medium (adj.)
1660s, "average," from medium (n.). The Latin adjective was medius. Meaning "intermediate" is from 1796. As a size designation from 1711. as a designation of cooked meat, it is attested from 1931, short for medium-rare (1881).
例文
1. Choose a soft， medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.
彼らのそれぞれのニーズに合わせて、柔らかくて硬くてちょうど良い、または硬いマットレスを選ぶ。
2.With a nice dark colour，the wine is medium to full bodied.
このワインは色が濃くて暗くて美しく、中程度の濃厚さから濃い香りのタイプです。
3.I would class my garden as medium in size.
私の庭は中くらいの大きさしかありません。
4.But Artaud was increasingly dissatisfied with film as a medium .
しかし、アルトは映画という表現に不満を募らせている。
5.Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium -sized mixing bowl.