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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "medials",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "medial (plural medials)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Any of various things that occur in the middle."
],
"links": [
[
"middle",
"middle"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Any of various things that occur in the middle.",
"One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word."
],
"links": [
[
"middle",
"middle"
],
[
"letter",
"letter"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmiː.di.əl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdiəl"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-medial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-medial.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-medial.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-medial.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "medial"
}
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