mediar
Spanish, verb/meˈdjaɾ/
mediar is spelled M-E-D-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mediar is a Spanish verb meaning “to mediate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tomar un término medio entre dos extremos”.
What does mediar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mediate
- 2
to center, to give a central, medium or average value
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomar un término medio entre dos extremos.
verb: 1. Llegar a la mitad de una cosa. 2. Interceder o rogar por una persona. 3. Interponerse entre dos o más que riñen o contienden, procurando reconciliarlos y unirlos en amistad. 4. Existir o estar una cosa en medio de otras.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mediar
- medio first-person present singular
- medié first-person preterite singular
- mediado participle past
- mediando gerund
- mediada feminine participle past
- mediados masculine participle past
- mediadas feminine participle past
- medias indicative informal present
- mediás indicative informal present
- media indicative present singular
- mediamos first-person indicative plural
- mediáis indicative plural present
- median indicative plural present
- mediaba first-person imperfect indicative
- mediabas imperfect indicative second-person
- mediábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- mediabais imperfect indicative plural
- mediaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mediar?
- /meˈdjaɾ/
- [meˈð̞jaɾ]
- [með̞iˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mediar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mediar in Spanish?
mediar appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).