mid-

English

Etymology

See mid.

Prefix

mid-

Denoting the middle part.
He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 33-37, 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.

a mid-sixteenth-century cathedral.
- 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 March 2015:
  Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.
- 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.
Occupying a middle position.
a mid-shoulder stretch
Intermediate
mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
Amid.
During, in the middle of doing something.
He was hit by a ball mid-jump.

Synonyms

(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

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with mid-

midconstruction

midconversation

midgastrulation

midgestationally

Translations

the middle part

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: śród-
Swedish: mid- (sv)

Anagrams

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

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmið-]

Prefix

mid-

mid-, middle

Derived terms

Danish terms prefixed with mid-

midalder

Old English

Etymology

From miþ, mid (“with, together”).

Pronunciation

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

Prefix

mid-

with, in conjunction with; together (with)
midwist ― presence, company; society; cooperation

midrād ― an accompaniment, a riding with
the middle part
midstrēam ― midstream
between
midspreca ― an advocate, intermediary

Derived terms

Old English terms prefixed with mid-

Swedish

Prefix

mid-

mid-, middle

Derived terms

Swedish terms prefixed with mid-

Anagrams

dim.

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