# med
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* IPA: /mɛːd/
* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

med (not comparable)
* (informal) Clipping of medical.
    I'm in med school.

##### Derived terms

* med-evac
* med mal
* med school

#### Noun

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)
* (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
** 2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.
** 2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:“What meds?” “It's a long story.” “What meds?” “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”
** 2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR‎:“I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.
* (informal, uncountable) Short for medicine (as an academic subject).
    My brother studied med at Cambridge.
* (informal, countable) A medic; a doctor.
** 2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.

##### Derived terms

* off one's meds
* pre-med

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

med
* (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.
** 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

### Anagrams

* D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

## Balinese
### Romanization

med
* Romanization of ᬫᭂᬤ᭄

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* meed (variant spelling)
* mied (southern Moselle Franconian)
* möd (Ripuarian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German muode, from Old High German muodi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːt/

### Adjective

med (masculine mede, feminine med, comparative meder, superlative et medste)
* (northern Moselle Franconian) tired

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛt]
* Hyphenation: med
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Homophone: met

### Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový)
* honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)
    Synonym: (literary) strdí

#### Derived terms

* mazat někomu med kolem huby
* medově
* medovina
* nebýt žádný med

#### Related terms

* medvěd m

### Further reading

* “med”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “med”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “med”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse með.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛð/, [mɛð]

### Preposition

med
* with
* by
* including, counting

### References

* “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Old Latin) IPA: /ˈmeːd/

### Pronoun

mēd
* Early Latin form of mē
** 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:
    𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉MANIOS:MED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVMASIOIManius made me for Numasius
** 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:
    𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃 / […] / 𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄𐌉𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌍𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌀𐌋𐌏𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏𐌃IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / […] / DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mitāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd / […] / duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi nē mēd malo(s) statōdThe person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee / […] / A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.
** c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:
    𐌄𐌂𐌏𐌖𐌓𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌉𐌀𐌔𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓[𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌]𐌄𐌃𐌖𐌇𐌄[𐌂𐌄𐌃]ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR[COSM]EDVHE[CED] eco urna tita vendias mamar[cos m]ed vhe[ced]I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar[cos had me made].
** 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I$^2$ 2658; image (page 18)):
    𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd.Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son.
** c. 500 BC, Garigliano bowl:
    𐌍𐌄𐌉[- - -]𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌𐌊𐌏𐌌𐌌𐌄𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌏𐌊𐌉𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌄𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌏NEIPARIMEDESOMKOMMEOISSOKIOISTRIVOIADDEOMDVO nei pari med esom kom meois sokiois trifos audeom duo[m]Do not take me! I am with my three companions (property) of the two Audii

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

med
* Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

med
* Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

med
* Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

### Etymology 4
#### Preposition

med
* Alternative spelling of mid

#### Adjective

med
* Alternative spelling of mid

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meː/

### Preposition

med
* with
* by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
* of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

#### Derived terms

* dermed
* langsmed
* med en gang
* med klokken
* medansvarlig
* medarbeider
* medbringe
* meddele
* medeier
* medfødt
* medføre
* medmenneske
* medpassasjer
* medskyldig
* medspiller
* medvirke

### References

* “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse með.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meː/
* Homophone: me

### Preposition

med
* with (in the company of)
    Kven vert med oss?Who is coming with us?
* by
    med båt / tog - by boat / train
* of
    fat med olje - barrel of oil

#### Derived terms

* dermed
* langsmed
* med det same
* medarbeidar
* medeigar
* medmenneske
* medpassasjer
* medskyldig

### References

* “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈmɛd/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈmɛt/

### Noun

med m inan
* honey

#### Descendants

* Czech: med

### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “med”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* meord
* ᛗᛖᛞᚢ (medu) — Runic

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːd/

### Noun

mēd f
* reward
** 5th century, Undley bracteate
    ᚷᚫᚷᚩᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᚫᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᛖᛞᚢgægógæ mægæ medu(Some possible translations:) this she-wolf is a reward to a kinsman abracadabra: to a kinsman this reward

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: mede, meede
** English: meed
** Scots: med

## Polabian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *medъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛt/

### Noun

med m ? (genitive singular medai)
* honey

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French Mède.

### Noun

med m (plural mezi)
* Mede

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *médu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.
Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek μέθη (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi मधु (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu مدھو (“honey”), Persian می (“wine”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mêːd/

#### Noun

mȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ме̑д)
* honey
    teče med i mleko iz usta - milk and honey floats from his mouth

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Variant of među.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛd/

#### Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling мед)
* (Kajkavian) between
* (Kajkavian) among

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [met]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

med m inan (relational adjective medový or medný, diminutive medík or medíček)
* honey

#### Derived terms

* medokýš m
* medovina f
* medovník m
* medovo

### Further reading

* “med”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *meďu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛt/

#### Preposition

med
* (with instrumental) between (stationary)
* (with accusative) between (motion towards)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /méːt/

#### Noun

mẹ̑d m inan
* honey

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *mědь.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /méːt/

#### Noun

mẹ̑d f
* brass

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mæþ, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meː(d)/, /mɛː(d)/
* Audio:(file)

#### Adverb

med
* also, as well, too
    Synonym: också
** 2004, Lars Winnerbäck (lyrics and music), “Elegi”‎:Och du berätta' att du saknar mig i natt - det gör jag medAnd you've told that tonight you're missing me - I'm also doing it

##### Derived terms

* See preposition below.

#### Preposition

med
* with, together with, in the company of
    Han tränar (tillsammans) med vänner.He trains (together) with friends.
* including, containing, with; in addition to
    Han hittade en plånbok med 100 euro.He found a wallet containing 100 euros.
    Med dig blir vi 4 (stycken).Including you, there will be four of us.
    Han har en motorcykel med sidovagn.He has a motorcycle with a sidecar.
    En hög med sand.A pile of sand.
* by, with; by means of
    Han reste med tåg.He travelled by train.
    Han öppnade dörren med nyckeln.He opened the door with the key.
* at, in, on, with (expressing manner)
    Han kör med en hastighet av 90 km/hHe is driving at a speed of 90 km/h.
    Sluta skriva med stora bokstäver!Stop writing in capital letters!
    Han gjorde det med avsikt.He did it on purpose.
    Han talar med brytning.He speaks with an accent.
* to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")
    1 + 1 är lika med 21 + 1 is equal to 2.
    Hon är gift med en svenskShe is married to a Swede.

##### Antonyms

* mot
* utan

##### Derived terms

* dela med sig
* dra med sig
* draga med sig
* därmed
* från och med
* föra med sig
* förse med
* ge med sig
* gå med på
* hålla med
* hänga med
* härmed
* i och med
* känna med sig
* leva med
* med det samma
* med detsamma
* med mera
* medagerande
* medansvar
* medansvarig
* medarbetare
* medarrangör
* medarvinge
* medbedömare
* medberoende
* medbestämmande
* medbjuden
* medborgare
* medborgerlig
* medbringa
* medbringare
* medbroder
* medbrottslig
* medbrottslighet
* medbrottsling
* meddela
* meddelare
* meddelelse
* meddelsam
* meddelägare
* meddetsamma
* medfaren
* medfinansiering
* medfinansiär
* medflyttning
* medfånge
* medfödd
* medfölja
* medföra
* medförfattare
* medförälder
* medge
* medgiva
* medgivande
* medgång
* medgörlig
* medgörlighet
* medhavd
* medhjälp
* medhjälpare
* medhåll
* medhållare
* medhårs
* medhörning
* medinflytande
* medintressent
* medkandidat
* medkristen
* medkämpe
* medkännande
* medkänsla
* medlem
* medlidande
* medlidsam
* medlidsamhet
* medljud
* medljudande
* medlut
* medlöpare
* medlöperi
* medmotionär
* medmusikant
* medmusiker
* medmänniska
* medmänsklig
* medmänsklighet
* medpassagerare
* medpatient
* medregent
* medresenär
* medryckande
* medräkna
* medräkning
* medsamma
* medskapande
* medskapare
* medskicka
* medskickning
* medskyldig
* medsols
* medspelande
* medspelare
* medspår
* medström
* medströms
* medsyster
* medsända
* medsökande
* medta
* medtaga
* medtagen
* medtagenhet
* medtrafikant
* medtävlande
* medtävlare
* medurs
* medutgivare
* medvarelse
* medverka
* medverkan
* medverkande
* medvetande
* medveten
* medvetslös
* medvetslöshet
* medvind
* medåtalad
* medägare
* medömkan
* stryka med
* till och med
* vara med
* varmed

##### Related terms

* genom
* medelst

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːd/

#### Noun

med c
* a runner (device upon which something slides)
* a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)

##### Alternative forms

* mede

##### Synonyms

* glidskena
* skridskoskena

##### Derived terms

* kälkmed
* meddon
* medspår
* slädmed
* sparkmed

### References

* med in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* dem