Meanings
adverb
- half, incompletely (indicating an action interrupted or only partially done)
- half, kind of (particularly used to partially soften negative descriptions)
adjective
- half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole)
- half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole)
- middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
- average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values)
- average (of or related to a representative example of a group)
- tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime)
- mid (of or related to the position of vowel articulation between open and closed)
- middle, mediopassive (of or related to grammatical voices neither active nor passive)
- Chile, emphatic, intensifier, ironic impressive (extremely large or good)
noun, masculine
- half (any fraction with a denominator of 2)
- historical medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L)
- historical medio (the usual container used to measure medios)
- Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela medio, half-real (a former coin)
- Dominican Republic, historical medio, half-peso (a former coin)
- Ecuador, historical medio, half-sucre (a former coin)
- Panama, historical medio, half-balboa (a former coin)
- Bolivia, historical medio, half-boliviano (a former coin)
- Mexico, historical medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to ¹⁄₁₆ real)
- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras medio (following decimalization, the notional amount of 6+¹⁄₄ centavos as half of the notional amount of a ¹⁄₈-peseta real and later by extension any 5 centavo coin)
- middle (the part of anything located halfway between its ends or extremes in time or along one dimension in space)
- midfielder, halfback (a person forming part of the middle or central defensive or offensive line, especially in soccer)
- synonym of médium (“medium”) (a person claiming to the ability to communicate with the dead)
- cut (the payment demanded to permit or facilitate some action, especially as a bribe)
- middle term (the general category that appears in both premises and disappears in the conclusion)
- plural normally mean (the second and third terms of a proportion)
- center, heart (the innermost part of anything with regard to all dimensions)
- in plural, often method, way, means (the actions or things by which some goal is achieved or intended to be achieved, something serving some purpose)
- in plural, often synonym of diligencia (“diligence, hard work”) (as the generally effective means to achieve any goal)
- in plural, often, plural normally medium (a means of communication, especially mass communication)
- medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs)
- medium (the physical substances with which art is made)
- environment (the circumstances that affect a person or animal's development)
- society (the circumstances in which a person or group of people lives)
- plural normally circle (a particular segment of society)
- habitat (the circumstances in which an animal or group of animals lives)