medio

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medio

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From Spanish medio (“half, half-celemin, half-real, etc.”), from Latin medius (“half”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Doublet of medium, media, and mediate.

noun medios

historical A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L.
historical Any of various former Spanish and Latin American half-pieces, particularly the half-real both as a coin and a notional unit of account.

Similar: maquila, copin, copino

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Similar: maquila, copin, copino

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@misc{medio_2026,
  title = {medio},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/medio},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}