midとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English mid, midde, from 古期英語 midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun かつ adjective). See also middle.

形容詞

mid (not comparable)

1. Denoting the middle part.

   mid ocean

2. Occupying a middle position; middle.

   mid finger

   mid hour of night

3. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
4. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Of mediocre quality; midgrade.
   • 2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (かつ, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best かつ inappropriate at worst).

前置詞

mid

1. Amid.

   Mid the best.

派生語

See also those listed at Category:English terms prefixed with mid-.

関連する語

• midday
• midnight

語源 2

From Middle English mid, midde, from 古期英語 midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.

名詞

mid (複数形 mids)

1. (archaic) middle
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     About the mid of night come to my tent.

語源 3

Clipping of mid-range.

名詞

mid (複数形 mids)

1. (disc golf) A mid-range.

語源 4

From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of use by the end of the 1300s^[1] and survived into the modern English period only in the compounds mididone, midwife, and theremid.

前置詞

mid

1. (in representations of German-accented English) With.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

語源 5

Shortening of middling or similar. Compare midwit.

形容詞

mid

1. (Internet slang) Trashy; low-quality.

参照

• mid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

別の表記

• mit, miþ, mið

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *midi. Compare Old Saxon mid, Old High German mit, Old Norse með.

発音

• IPA^(key): /mid/

前置詞

mid

1. with

派生した語

• Middle English: mid

接頭辞

mid-

1. Denoting the middle part.
   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

   He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 34-36, as opposed to one's early thirties (aged roughly 30–33) and one's late thirties (aged roughly around 37-39).

   He was born in the mid-1930s.

2. Occupying a middle position.

   a mid-shoulder stretch

3. Intermediate

   mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow

4. Amid.
5. During, in the middle of doing something.

   He was hit by a ball mid-jump.

同意語

• (central): centro-/centri-, midpoint, especially of mass nouns
• (middle part): medio-, especially between countable nouns
• (intermediate): meso-, medio-, especially when comparing sizes
• (amid): inter-, dia-, especially of space
• (during): intra-, peri-, especially of time

派生語

• mid-air
• mid-season
• mid-winter

アナグラム

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

語源

From miþ, mid (“with, together”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmid/ (as a nominal prefix)
• IPA^(key): /mid/ (as a verbal prefix)

接頭辞

mid-

1. with, in conjunction with; together (with)

   midwist ― presence, company; society; cooperation

   midrād ― an accompaniment, a riding with

2. the middle part

   midstrēam ― midstream

3. between

   midspreca ― an advocate, intermediary

派生語