See meio- on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "μεῖον",
"4": "",
"5": "less"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prefix",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "en-prefix"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "93 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Small, little."
],
"id": "en-meio--en-prefix-5WCu3d9f",
"links": [
[
"Small",
"Small"
],
[
"little",
"little"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Related to meiosis."
],
"id": "en-meio--en-prefix-gTH9mz~8",
"links": [
[
"meiosis",
"meiosis"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "meio-"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "grc",
"3": "μεῖον",
"4": "",
"5": "less"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "prefix"
},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Italian links with redundant target parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant target parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "meio- + -cardia (“heart condition”) → meiocardia (“maximum decrease in volume of the heart cavity”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "meio- + Ancient Greek πράσσειν (prássein, “to do”) → meiopragia (“reduction in the functional activity of an organ”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "meio- + Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) → meiotterismo (“reduction of wings in the development of insects”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used in scientific and medical terms to indicate diminution"
],
"id": "en-meio--it-prefix-862g61-e",
"links": [
[
"scientific",
"scientific#English"
],
[
"medical",
"medical#English"
],
[
"diminution",
"diminution#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "meio-"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English prefixes",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "μεῖον",
"4": "",
"5": "less"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prefix",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "en-prefix"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Small, little."
],
"links": [
[
"Small",
"Small"
],
[
"little",
"little"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Related to meiosis."
],
"links": [
[
"meiosis",
"meiosis"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "meio-"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "grc",
"3": "μεῖον",
"4": "",
"5": "less"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "prefix"
},
"expansion": "meio-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian links with redundant target parameters",
"Italian prefixes",
"Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "meio- + -cardia (“heart condition”) → meiocardia (“maximum decrease in volume of the heart cavity”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "meio- + Ancient Greek πράσσειν (prássein, “to do”) → meiopragia (“reduction in the functional activity of an organ”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "meio- + Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) → meiotterismo (“reduction of wings in the development of insects”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used in scientific and medical terms to indicate diminution"
],
"links": [
[
"scientific",
"scientific#English"
],
[
"medical",
"medical#English"
],
[
"diminution",
"diminution#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "meio-"
}
Download raw JSONL data for meio- meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.