media, medium (format for communicating or presenting information) · medium (the nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum or a specific substance) · medium (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) · half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) · middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
köken: Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin…
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit माध्यम (mādhyama, “middle, central”), vṛddhi derivative of मध्यम (madhyama). The noun is a semantic loan from and phono-semantic matching of English medium.
intermediary · a person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain etc.) · one or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end