medo

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *meduz. Compare English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέδος (médos), Latin mēdus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmedo]
• Rhymes: -edo
• Hyphenation: me‧do

medo (accusative singular medon, plural medoj, accusative plural medojn)

1. mead

   Synonym: mielakvo

• teĝo

From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, from Latin metus. Cognate with Portuguese medo, Asturian mieu, Spanish miedo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeðʊ]

medo m (uncountable)

1. fear

   Synonym: temor

• medoento
• medoso

• Medo

• “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “medo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “medo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “medo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “medo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin Mēdus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos), from an Iranian language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: mè‧do

medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medi, feminine plural mede)

1. (historical) Median (pertaining to Media or Medes)

medo m (plural medi, feminine meda)

1. (historical) Mede, Median (person from Media)

medo m (uncountable)

1. Median (language)

• medo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• demo, demo-, mode

medo

1. Rōmaji transcription of めど

medo

1. Alternative form of medwe

medo

1. nominative singular of meda (“fat”)

From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, from Latin metus (“fear”). Compare Spanish miedo.

• mêdo (obsolete)

• Hyphenation: me‧do

medo m (plural medos)

1. fear (emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat)

   Não tenho medo.

   I'm not afraid.

   Estamos com medo.

   We are afraid.

   • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte, Rocco, page 317:

     Desculpe, acho que dá mais medo se for meia-noite!

     I'm sorry, I thought that it would be more fearsome if it were midnight!

• medroso

Learned borrowing from Latin Mēdus

• Hyphenation: me‧do

medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medos, feminine plural medas)

1. Median

   Synonym: (dated) médico

Derived from medved

medo n (Cyrillic spelling медо)

1. bear
2. teddy bear

medo (feminine meda, masculine plural medos, feminine plural medas)

1. (historical, relational) of Media; Mede (of or relating to historical Media)

medo m (plural medos, feminine meda, feminine plural medas)

1. Mede (native or resident of historical Media)

• “medo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014