"metade" meaning in Portuguese

See metade in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /meˈta.d͡ʒi/ [Brazil], /meˈta.d͡ʒi/ [Brazil], /meˈta.de/ [Southern-Brazil], /mɨˈta.dɨ/ [Portugal], [mɨˈta.ðɨ] [Portugal] Forms: metades [plural]
Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Compare Spanish mitad. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|metade}} Old Galician-Portuguese metade, {{m|roa-opt|meiadade}} meiadade, {{inh|pt|LL.|medietās|medietātem|center; midpoint}} Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), {{inh|pt|la|medius||middle; half}} Latin medius (“middle; half”), {{der|pt|ine-pro|*medʰyo-||between}} Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”), {{cog|es|mitad}} Spanish mitad Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} metade f (plural metades)
  1. half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-metade-pt-noun-5Xr6mqcw
  2. middle; midpoint (point equidistant between two extremes) Tags: feminine Synonyms: centro, meio
    Sense id: en-metade-pt-noun-7u3hfTb1
  3. middle (time between the beginning and the end) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: meio
    Sense id: en-metade-pt-noun-qvmqg~TS Disambiguation of Time: 0 0 100 0
  4. (mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-metade-pt-noun-ZySWZPA6 Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 16 10 12 62 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ametade [colloquial, obsolete] Derived forms: cara-metade, fazer pela metade

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      "word": "cara-metade"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    }
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    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "mitad"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish mitad",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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        "plural"
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    }
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "english": "Half man, half God / And both are afraid of me",
          "ref": "2017, “Esú”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues",
          "text": "Metade homem, metade Deus / E os dois sentem medo de mim",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "word": "dobro"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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      "ipa": "/meˈta.d͡ʒi/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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      "ipa": "/meˈta.de/",
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        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/mɨˈta.dɨ/",
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        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "[mɨˈta.ðɨ]",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(Portugal) -adɨ"
    }
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    }
  ],
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}
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    },
    {
      "word": "fazer pela metade"
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      "name": "inh"
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    {
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      "args": {
        "1": "es",
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      },
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    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "me‧ta‧de"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Portuguese terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Half man, half God / And both are afraid of me",
          "ref": "2017, “Esú”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues",
          "text": "Metade homem, metade Deus / E os dois sentem medo de mim",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "half (one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided)"
      ],
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        "feminine"
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    },
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      ],
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          "midpoint",
          "midpoint"
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      ],
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    },
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        "middle (time between the beginning and the end)"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "meio"
        }
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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        {
          "word": "dobro"
        }
      ],
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        "pt:Mathematics"
      ],
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        "half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)"
      ],
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          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
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        ]
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        "(mathematics) half (fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2)"
      ],
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      ],
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meˈta.d͡ʒi/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meˈta.de/",
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      "ipa": "/mɨˈta.dɨ/",
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        "Portugal"
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      "ipa": "[mɨˈta.ðɨ]",
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    {
      "rhymes": "(Brazil) -ad͡ʒi"
    },
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      "word": "ametade"
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}

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