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See also: Appendix:Variations of "med"

English

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɛːd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Adjective

med (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Clipping of medical.
    I'm in med school.
Derived terms

Noun

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)

  1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
      Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
      Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
      Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
      Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
    • 2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
      Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.
    • 2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:
      “What meds?”
      “It's a long story.”
      “What meds?”
      “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”
    • 2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR‎:
      “I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.
  2. (informal, uncountable) Short for medicine (as an academic subject).
    My brother studied med at Cambridge.
  3. (informal, countable) A medic; a doctor.
    • 2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:
      A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

med

  1. (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.
    • 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
      You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

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Balangao

Pronunciation

Adjective

med

  1. none, nothing

Antonyms

Balinese

Romanization

med

  1. Romanization of ᬫᭂᬤ᭄

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German muode, from Old High German muodi.

Pronunciation

Adjective

med (masculine mede, feminine med, comparative meder, superlative et medste)

  1. (northern Moselle Franconian) tired

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový)

  1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)
    Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
Declension of med (hard masculine inanimate)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “med”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “med”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “med”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
  3. including, counting

References

Latin

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mēd

  1. Old Latin form of mē
    • 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:
      𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉
      MANIOS:MED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVMASIOI
      Manius made me for Numasius
    • 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:
      𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃 / […] / 𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄𐌉𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌍𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌀𐌋𐌏𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏𐌃
      IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / […] / DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD
      iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mitāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd / […] / duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi nē mēd malo(s) statōd
      The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee / […] / A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.
    • c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:
      𐌄𐌂𐌏𐌖𐌓𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌉𐌀𐌔𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓[𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌]𐌄𐌃𐌖𐌇𐌄[𐌂𐌄𐌃]
      ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR[COSM]EDVHE[CED]
      eco urna tita vendias mamar[cos m]ed vhe[ced]
      I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar[cos had me made].
    • 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I2 2658; image (page 18)):
      𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃
      HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD
      Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd.
      Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son.
    • c. 500 BC, Garigliano bowl:
      𐌍𐌄𐌉[- - -]𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌𐌊𐌏𐌌𐌌𐌄𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌏𐌊𐌉𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌄𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌏
      NEIPARIMEDESOMKOMMEOISSOKIOISTRIVOIADDEOMDVO
      nei pari med esom kom meois sokiois trifos audeom duo[m]
      Do not take me! I am with my three companions (property) of the two Audii
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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

med

  1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Etymology 4

Preposition

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

  1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

Pronunciation

Preposition

med

  1. with
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

Preposition

med

  1. with (in the company of)
    Kven vert med oss?
    Who is coming with us?
  2. by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
  3. of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ

Pronunciation

Noun

med m inan

  1. honey

Declension

More information singular, dual ...
Declension of med (u-stem)
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

  • Czech: med

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Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

Pronunciation

Noun

mēd f

  1. reward

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

med m ? (genitive singular medai)

  1. honey

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Mède.

Noun

med m (plural mezi)

  1. Mede

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *médu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek μέθη (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi मधु (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu مدھو (“honey”), Persian می (“wine”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)

  1. honey
    teče med i mleko iz usta - milk and honey floats from his mouth
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

Variant of među.

Pronunciation

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling мед)

  1. (Kajkavian) between
  2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový or medný, diminutive medík or medíček)

  1. honey

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

  • medokýš m
  • medovina f
  • medovník m
  • medovo

Further reading

  • “med”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu.

Pronunciation

Preposition

med

  1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
  2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

mẹ̑d m inan

  1. honey
Declension
More information Declension of (masculine, irregular), nom. sing. ...
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
More information Masculine inan., hard o-stem, nominative ...

Etymology 3

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From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

Pronunciation

Noun

mẹ̑d f

  1. brass
Declension
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
More information Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent, nominative ...

Further reading

  • “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mæþ, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Pronunciation

Adverb

med

  1. also, as well, too
    Synonym: också
    • 2004, Lars Winnerbäck, “Elegi”‎:
      Och du berätta' att du saknar mig i natt - det gör jag med
      And you've told that tonight you're missing me - I'm also doing it
Derived terms
  • See preposition below.

Preposition

med

  1. with, together with, in the company of
    Han tränar (tillsammans) med vänner.
    He trains (together) with friends.
  2. including, containing, with; in addition to
    Han hittade en plånbok med 100 euro.
    He found a wallet containing 100 euros.
    Med dig blir vi 4 (stycken).
    Including you, there will be four of us.
    Han har en motorcykel med sidovagn.
    He has a motorcycle with a sidecar.
    En hög med sand.
    A pile of sand.
  3. by, with; by means of
    Han reste med tåg.
    He travelled by train.
    Han öppnade dörren med nyckeln.
    He opened the door with the key.
  4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)
    Han kör med en hastighet av 90 km/h
    He is driving at a speed of 90 km/h.
    Sluta skriva med stora bokstäver!
    Stop writing in capital letters!
    Han gjorde det med avsikt.
    He did it on purpose.
    Han talar med brytning.
    He speaks with an accent.
  5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")
    1 + 1 är lika med 2
    1 + 1 is equal to 2.
    Hon är gift med en svensk
    She is married to a Swede.
Antonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Pronunciation

Noun

med c

  2. a runner (device upon which something slides)
  3. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)
Declension
More information nominative, genitive ...
Alternative forms
Synonyms
  • glidskena
  • skridskoskena
Derived terms
  • kälkmed
  • meddon
  • medspår
  • slädmed
  • sparkmed

References

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