média
Portuguese, noun
média is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “arithmetic mean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of médio. Without its accent, media is a different word: “alternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “valor intermediário”.
What does média mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininearithmetic mean
- 2
femininemeasure of central tendency
- 3
femininethe score necessary to go from one grade to another
- 4
Brazilfemininecoffee with milk
- 5
Brazilfemininepão francês
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinemedia; mass media
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of médio
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinealternative spelling of média (“media; mass media”)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of medir
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of medio
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. valor intermediário 2. mistura de café com leite
noun: 1. o coletivo das indústrias de comunicação e seus profissionais envolvidos
noun: 1. ver média, mídia
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 média
- médias plural
- media alternative
- mídia alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to média
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is média in Portuguese?
média appears 100 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).