med

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Melpa with d as a placeholder.

Symbol

med

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Melpa.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Melpa terms

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /mɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Various clippings.

Adjective

med (not comparable)

2. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

4. Clipping of median.

Derived terms

medical

• medevac, med-evac
• medkit
• medlab
• med mal
• med school
• medspeak
• med student
• pre-med, premed

median

• medcouple

Related terms

• transmed

Noun

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds) (informal)

2. (uncountable) Clipping of medication.
3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A medication, especially a prescribed psychoactive medication.

   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 National Public Radio‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, archived from the original on 7 September 2026:

     “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.

5. (uncountable) Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.

   My brother studied med at Cambridge.

7. (countable) Clipping of 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

medication

• med pour
• off one's meds

medicine

• med-peds

Verb

med (third-person singular simple present meds, present participle medding, simple past and past participle medded)

2. (informal) Clipping of medicate.

Derived terms

• self-med

Etymology 2

Verb

med

2. (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.
   • 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC, part I (At Marygreen), pages 21–22:

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

See also

• sosh med

Anagrams

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

Balangao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

Adjective

med

1. none, nothing

Antonyms

• wache, wacha

Balinese

Alternative forms

• emed

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mət/

Adjective

med (Balinese script ᬫᭂᬤ᭄)

1. bored
2. fed up with

Verb

med (Balinese script ᬫᭂᬤ᭄)

1. to pull

Further reading

• “med”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• meed (variant spelling)
• mied (southern Moselle Franconian)
• möd (Ripuarian)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːt/

Adjective

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

1. (northern Moselle Franconian) tired

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Balto-Slavic *medu

Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ

Old Czech med

Czech med

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛt]
• Hyphenation: med
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový)

1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)

   Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

Declension of med (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	med	medy
genitive	medu	medů
dative	medu	medům
accusative	med	medy
vocative	mede	medy
locative	medu	medech
instrumental	medem	medy

Derived terms

• mazat někomu med kolem huby
• medově
• medovina
• nebýt žádný med

Related terms

• medvěd m

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), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛð/, [mɛ(ð)]

Preposition

med

1. with

   Jeg gider ikke at havde noget med ham at gøre.

   I do not want anything to do with him.

2. by

   Han rejste til i Tyskland med tog.

   He took a trip to Germany by train.

3. including, counting

   Hun arbejdede mere 52 timer, med overtid.

   She worked for more than 52 hours, including overtime.

References

• “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Either a clipping of medicatie (“medication”), or Borrowed from English med, which is also a clipping of medication.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/, [mɛt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: med
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m (plural meds, no diminutive)

1. (informal) Medication(s)

   Synonym: medicatie

   Chinchilla's ejecteren haar wat een vibe is want ik heb dezelfde sjit gedaan op m'n meds voor bipolar ― Chinchillas eject hair which is a vibe 'cause I did the same shit on my meds for bipolar

Latin

Alternative forms

• 𐌌𐌄𐌃 (med) (Old Italic script)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmeːd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛd]
• Hyphenation: mēd

Pronoun

mēd

1. (Archaic Latin) accusative/ablative singular of egō̆
   • 7th century BCE, Praeneste fibula:

     𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉

     [Mānios mēd fhe(⁝)fhakēd Numasiōi.]

     ꟿANIOS:ꟿED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVꟿASIOI

     Manius made me for Numerius.

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 form of mid

Adjective

med

1. alternative form 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

• IPA^(key): /meː/

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

• dermed
• langsmed
• med en gang
• med klokken
• medansvarlig
• medarbeider
• medbringe
• meddele
• medeier
• medfødt
• medføre
• medmenneske
• medpassasjer
• medskyldig
• medspiller
• medvirke

References

• “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mæ (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/, /mæː/
• Homophone: me (in some dialects)

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

• dermed
• langsmed
• med det same
• medarbeidar
• medeigar
• medmenneske
• medpassasjer
• medskyldig

References

• “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “med”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.
• “med” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Old Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Balto-Slavic *medu

Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ

Old Czech med

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈmɛd/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈmɛt/

Noun

med m inan

1. honey

Declension

Declension of med (u-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	med	medy	medové, medi
genitive	medu	medú	medóv
dative	medovi, medu	medoma	medóm
accusative	med	medy	medy
vocative	mede	medy	medové, medi
locative	medu	medú	mediech
instrumental	medem	medoma	medy

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

• Czech: med

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “med”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old English

Alternative forms

• meord
• ᛗᛖᛞᚢ (medu) — Runic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

mēd f

1. reward
   • c. 475 C.E., Undley bracteate:

     ᚷᚫᚷᚩᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᚫᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᛖᛞᚢ

     gægogæ mægæ medu

     (possible translations:)
     • this she-wolf is a reward to a kinsman
     • abracadabra: to a kinsman this reward

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mēd	mēda, mēde
accusative	mēde	mēda, mēde
genitive	mēde	mēda
dative	mēde	mēdum

Descendants

• Middle English: mede, meede
  • English: meed
  • Scots: med

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *medā, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure, consider”). Akin to mess.

Noun

med f

1. scale, balance

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	medL	meidL	medaH
vocative	medL	meidL	medaH
accusative	meidN	meidL	medaH
genitive	meideH	medL	medN
dative	meidL	medaib	medaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: meá
• Manx: meih
• Scottish Gaelic: meidh

Mutation

Mutation of med

radical	lenition	nasalization
med also mmed in h-prothesis environments	med pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	med also mmed

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “med”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Slovak

Alternative forms

• mad, mäd, miad

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Balto-Slavic *medu

Proto-Slavic *medъ

Old Slovak med

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *medъ. First attested in 1585.

Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový)

1. honey

Descendants

• Pannonian Rusyn: мед (med)
• Slovak: med

Related terms

nouns

• medek
• medokýš
• medovina
• medovník
• medík
• medíček

Further reading

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “med”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polabian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Balto-Slavic *medu

Proto-Slavic *medъ

Polabian med

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *medъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

Noun

med m ? (genitive singular medai)

1. honey

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Mède.

Noun

med m (plural mezi)

1. Mede

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	med	medul	mezi	mezii
genitive-dative	med	medului	mezi	mezilor
vocative	medule		mezilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

• IPA^(key): /mêːd/

Noun

mȇd m inan (Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)

1. honey

   teče med i mleko iz usta - milk and honey floats from his mouth

Declension

Declension of med

	singular	plural
nominative	mȇd	mèdovi
genitive	mȅda	mȅdōvā
dative	mȅdu	mèdovima
accusative	mȇd	mèdove
vocative	mȅde	mȅdovi
locative	mèdu	mèdovima
instrumental	mȅdom	mèdovima

Etymology 2

Variant of među.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling мед)

1. between
2. among

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu

Proto-Balto-Slavic *medu

Proto-Slavic *medъ

Old Slovak med

Slovak med

Inherited from Old Slovak med, from Proto-Slavic *medъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /met/, [ˈmet]
• Rhymes: -et

• Audio (Bratislava):

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Noun

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

1. honey

Declension

Declension of med
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	med	medy
genitive	medu	medov
dative	medu	medom
accusative	med	medy
locative	mede	medoch
instrumental	medom	medmi

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, 2003–2026

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

Preposition

med

1. (with instrumental) between (stationary; used in correlation with the preposition in in the structure "med X in Y")
2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méːt/

Noun

mẹ̑d m inan

1. honey

Declension

Declension of med (masculine, irregular)
nom. sing.	med
gen. sing.	medu, meda
	singular
nominative	med
accusative	med
genitive	medu, meda
dative	medu
locative	medu
instrumental	medom

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.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	méd
genitive	méda
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	méd
genitive (rodȋlnik)	méda
dative (dajȃlnik)	médu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	méd
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	médu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	médom

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méːt/

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.

Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nominative	méd
genitive	medí
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	méd
genitive (rodȋlnik)	medí
dative (dajȃlnik)	médi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	méd
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	médi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	medjó

Further reading

• “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː(d)/, /mɛː(d)/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

med

1. also, as well, too

   Synonym: också

   • 2004, Lars Winnerbäck, “Elegi”‎^[2]:

     Och du berätta' att du saknar mig i natt - det gör jag med

     And you told me that you miss me tonight - I do too

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

• mot
• utan

Derived terms

• dela med sig
• dra med sig
• draga med sig
• därmed
• från och med
• föra med sig
• förse med
• ge med sig
• gå med
• gå med på
• hålla med
• hänga med
• härmed
• i och med
• känna med sig
• leva med
• med det samma
• med detsamma
• med mera
• medagerande
• medansvar
• medansvarig
• medarbetare
• medarrangör
• medarvinge
• medbedömare
• medberoende
• medbestämmande
• medbjuden
• medborgare
• medborgerlig
• medbringa
• medbringare
• medbroder
• medbrottslig
• medbrottslighet
• medbrottsling
• meddela
• meddelare
• meddelelse
• meddelsam
• meddelägare
• meddetsamma
• medfaren
• medfinansiering
• medfinansiär
• medflyttning
• medfånge
• medfödd
• medfölja
• medföra
• medförfattare
• medförälder
• medge
• medgiva
• medgivande
• medgång
• medgörlig
• medgörlighet
• medhavd
• medhjälp
• medhjälpare
• medhåll
• medhållare
• medhårs
• medhörning
• medinflytande
• medintressent
• medkandidat
• medkristen
• medkämpe
• medkännande
• medkänsla
• medlem
• medlidande
• medlidsam
• medlidsamhet
• medljud
• medljudande
• medlut
• medlöpare
• medlöperi
• medmotionär
• medmusikant
• medmusiker
• medmänniska
• medmänsklig
• medmänsklighet
• medpassagerare
• medpatient
• medregent
• medresenär
• medryckande
• medräkna
• medräkning
• medsamma
• medskapande
• medskapare
• medskicka
• medskickning
• medskyldig
• medsols
• medspelande
• medspelare
• medspår
• medström
• medströms
• medsyster
• medsända
• medsökande
• medta
• medtaga
• medtagen
• medtagenhet
• medtrafikant
• medtävlande
• medtävlare
• medurs
• medutgivare
• medvarelse
• medverka
• medverkan
• medverkande
• medvetande
• medveten
• medvetslös
• medvetslöshet
• medvind
• medåtalad
• medägare
• medömkan
• stryka med
• ta med
• till och med
• vara med
• varmed

Related terms

• genom
• medelst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːd/

Noun

med c

2. a runner (device upon which something slides)
3. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)

Declension

Declension of med

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	med	meds
	definite	meden	medens
plural	indefinite	medar	medars
	definite	medarna	medarnas

Alternative forms

• mede

Synonyms

• glidskena
• skridskoskena

Derived terms

• kälkmed
• meddon
• medspår
• slädmed
• sparkmed

References

• “med”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• dem