Media

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late 19th century: shortening of modern Latin tunica (or membrana ) media ‘middle sheath (or layer)’.


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Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius(“middle”, adjective).

Plural of medium, shortened form of communications media, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius(“middle”, adjective).

Shortening from multimedia


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media (n.)

"newspapers, radio, TV, etc." 1927, perhaps abstracted from mass-media (1923, a technical term in advertising); plural of medium (n.) as "intermediate agency," a sense attested in English from c. 1600. Also see -a (2).