The corpus record — Latin

medianus

medianus · adj

that is in the middle, middle

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Where it lives

De Architectura 15 · 2.6/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

mĕdĭānus — Lewis & Short

mĕdĭānus, a, um, adj.medius,

I that is in the middle, middle (except Vitr., only post-class.): columnae, Vitr. 3, 2, 6: acroteria, id. 3, 5, 12: capita leonina, id. 3, 5, 15: digitus, Veg. Vet. 2, 40, 3: filius, Hier. Ep. 73, 3: porta, Inscr. Fabr. 463, 95.— Subst.: mĕdĭānum, i, n., the middle part, the middle: ex mediano coenaculi, Dig. 9, 3, 5, § 2.—Plur.: mediana malvarum, Apic. 4, 2, 133.

In the wild

mediana Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.133
Mediana Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.5.1
mediana Cicero, Timaeus 25
medianis Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.2
mediano Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.8
mediana Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.3.7

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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