English

Proper noun

Med

1. (informal) Mediterranean: We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.

Etymology 2

Noun

Med

1. (law) Abbreviation of medical.
2. (law) Abbreviation of medicine.

Usage notes

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.

Anagrams

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

English

Adjective

med ‎(not comparable)

1. (informal) Medical.

   I'm in med school.

Noun

med ‎(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.

Etymology 2

Verb

med

1. (Britain, dialect) may; might
   • Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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

Anagrams

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

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m

1. honey (sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Related terms

• medvěd m
• medovina f

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/, [mɛð]

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by
3. including, counting

Faliscan

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-d- ‎(“me”). Related to Latin me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmed/

Pronoun

med

1. me; accusative singular of ecō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/

Preposition

med

1. with

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/ (example of pronunciation)

Preposition

med

1. with (in the company of)

   Kven vert med oss?‎

   Who is coming with us?

Derived terms

• dermed
• langsmed
• medarbeidar

Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *mēdō, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós. Cognate with Old Frisian mede, Old Saxon meda, Old High German miata (German Miete ‎(“rent”)); and with Ancient Greek μισθός ‎(misthós, “reward”), archaic Russian мзда ‎(mzda, “payment, bribe”), and Slovak mzda.

Pronunciation

Noun

mēd f

1. reward

Declension

Descendants

• English: meed

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, 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 ‎(Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)

1. honey

Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of među.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

Preposition

med

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

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Noun

med m ‎(genitive singular medu, nominative plural medy, declension pattern of dub)

1. honey (the sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• med in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/, /mɛd/
• Tonal orthography: med

Preposition

med

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *medъ, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈméːt/
• Tonal orthography: mẹ̑d

Noun

méd m inan ‎(genitive medú or méda, uncountable)

1. honey

Declension

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈméːt/
• Tonal orthography: mẹ̑d

Noun

méd f ‎(genitive medí, uncountable)

1. brass

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː(d)/, /mɛː(d)/

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

med

1. also, as well, too

Derived terms

• See preposition, below

Synonyms

• också

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

Related terms

• genom
• medelst

Etymology 2

Noun

med c

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

Declension

Alternative forms

• mede

Synonyms

• glidskena
• skridskoskena

Compounds

• kälkmed
• meddon
• medspår
• slädmed
• sparkmed

References

• med in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)