"médium" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /me.djɔm/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-médium.wav Forms: médiums [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medium. The sense of "person who contacts the dead" is probably a semantic loan from English medium. Doublet of mi-. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|la|medium|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin medium, {{bor+|fr|la|medium}} Borrowed from Latin medium, {{semantic loan|fr|en|medium|nocap=1}} semantic loan from English medium, {{doublet|fr|mi-}} Doublet of mi- Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} médium m (plural médiums)
  1. (music) middle register Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-médium-fr-noun-fAvXEV5b Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  2. (spiritualism, parapsychology) medium (a person who contacts the dead) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Parapsychology, Spiritualism
    Sense id: en-médium-fr-noun-H7VnKz7K Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Topics: lifestyle, parapsychology, pseudoscience, religion, spiritualism
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: médiumnique, médiumnité

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for médium meaning in French (3.2kB)

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