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meia

meia

Portuguese

meia

Alternative forms

Adjective

meia f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective meio.
Descendants
  • Kadiwéu: meeya

Noun

meia f (plural meias)

  1. sock (covering for the foot; originally short form of meia-calça)
  2. (Brazil) a ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children (short form of meia-entrada)
  3. (Portugal) obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
  4. (when reading a time) thirty minutes (short form of meia hora)
    O evento termina às três e meia.
    The event ends at 3:30.

meia m f (plural meias)

  1. (soccer) midfielder
Synonyms
  • (sock): carpim (Rio Grande do Sul), peúga (Portugal)
  • (ticket sold for half its normal price): meia-entrada
  • (midfielder): meio-campista
Derived terms
  • meia elástica
Related terms

Numeral

meia

  1. (Brazil) six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mear (to half).

Verb

meia

  1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of mear
  2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mear