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Added 2 October 2026

mid

/mɪd/ symbol

Latin root: medius Wiktionary

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ISO 639-3 language code for Mandaic.

adjective

Occupying a middle position; middle.
Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
Mediocre; of middling quality.

noun

The middle of the battlefield.
We need to retake mid.

adverb

To or into the middle of the battlefield.
Everyone head mid.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

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