mitad
Spanish
| 20[a], [b] | ||
| 2 | 3 → | |
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| Cardinal: dos Ordinal: segundo Ordinal abbreviation: 2.º Multiplier: doble Collective: ambos Fractional: medio, mitad | ||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 2 | ||
Alternative forms
- metad (archaic)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish meitad, meytat, meetat, from Late Latin medietātem (compare Catalan meitat, French moitié, Italian metà, Portuguese metade), from Latin medius (“mean, middle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈtad/ [miˈt̪að̞]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: mi‧tad
Noun
mitad f (plural mitades)
- (fractional number) half
- tres mitades ― three halves (3⁄2)
- la mitad del pastel ― half of the cake
Derived terms
- cuarto y mitad
- mitad y mitad
- pan por mitad
Related terms
Further reading
- “mitad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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