# media

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmiː.di.ə/ · frequency rank #505

## Definitions
1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. A voiced stop consonant.
3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

## Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

## Easily confused with
- **MIA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mia)
- **Mei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mei)
- **mega** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mega)
- **Modi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-modi)
- **mesa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mesa)
- **MIDI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-midi)
- **Mein** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mein)
- **MENA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mena)
- **Meir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-meir)
- **muda** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-muda)
- **mela** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mela)
- **merit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-merit)
- **medic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-medic)
- **Mehta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mehta)
- **Mehdi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mehdi)
- **Mensa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-mensa)
- **Meena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-meena)
- **Moria** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-moria)
- **medium** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-medium)
- **median** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/media-vs-median)

## Common misspellings (6)
`emdia`, `mdeia`, `medai`, `meddia`, `meida`, `mmedia`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/media