médium
Portuguese, noun/ˈmɛ.d͡ʒiw̃/
médium is spelled M-É-D-I-U-M (6 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,354th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médium is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “medium (a person who contacts the dead)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que supostamente pode funcionar como intermediário entre os encarnados (vivos) e os desencarnados…”.
What does médium mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinemedium (a person who contacts the dead)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa que supostamente pode funcionar como intermediário entre os encarnados (vivos) e os desencarnados (mortos) 2. pessoa que supostamente tem a capacidade de se comunicar com os espíritos
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 médium
- médiuns plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce médium?
- Brazil /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒiw̃/
- Brazil [ˈmɛ.d͡ʒiʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ˈmɛ.diw̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to médium
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is médium in Portuguese?
médium appears 2.5 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).