mediana
Portuguese, noun/me.d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nɐ/
mediana is spelled M-E-D-I-A-N-A (7 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mediana is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “median (measure of central tendency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of mediano. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “linha que une o ponto médio do lado de um triângulo e o vértice oposto”.
What does mediana mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemedian (measure of central tendency)
- 2
femininemedian (line joining a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of mediano
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. linha que une o ponto médio do lado de um triângulo e o vértice oposto 2. medida de tendência central de uma distribuição de dados
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mediana
- medianas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mediana?
- Brazil /me.d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nɐ/
- Brazil /meˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.nɐ/
- Portugal /mɨˈdjɐ.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mediana
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mediana in Portuguese?
mediana appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).