Mid

English

Preposition

Mid

1. (obsolete) With.
2. Amid.

Adjective

Mid (not comparable)

1. Denoting the middle part.

   mid ocean

2. Occupying a middle position; middle.

   mid finger

   mid hour of night

3. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).

Derived terms

• mid-autumn
• midfall
• midseason
• midshipman
• midsummer
• mid-winter

Related terms

• midday
• midnight

Noun

Mid (plural Mids)

1. middle
2. (computing) Mobile information device

Thesaurus

accented, alveolar, amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, average, back, barytone, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, center, centermost, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, equatorial, equidistant, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, halfway, hard, heavy, high, interior, intermediary, intermediate, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midst, midway, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuclear, occlusive, open, over, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, throughout, together with, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, with

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English mid (“with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of”, preposition), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰi-, *meta (“with”). Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), German mit (“with”), Danish med (“with”), Icelandic með (“with”), Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “among, between, with”), Sanskrit  (smat, “together, at the same time”).

Derived terms

• midwife

Etymology 2

Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *medhy- (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch mits (“provided that”), German mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miðr (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle, medium”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midjaz, *midjan, *midjô (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *medhy- (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”).

Translations

Adjective

denoting the middle part

Finnish: keski- (fi)

occupying a middle position; middle

in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate

amid

Anagrams

• dim
• IDM
• MDI

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Middle English

Preposition

Mid

1. with

Etymology

Carried over from Old English mid.

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Old English

Preposition

mid

1. with

Alternative forms

• mit, miþ

Etymology

Akin to Old High German mit, Old Norse með.

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Old Saxon

Preposition

Mid

1. with

Adverb

Mid

1. with, together, along

Alternative forms

• midi
• mith

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *midi.