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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">(being) in the middle, middle</b>, of space, sime etc., <b class="b3">τὸ μέσον</b> [[the middle]] (Il.). Forms of somp.: <b class="b3">μεσαί-τερος</b>, <b class="b3">-τατος</b> (IA.; after [[παλαίτερος]] a.o.; Schwyzer 632), <b class="b3">μέσ(σ)ατος</b> (Il., Ar.; after [[ἔσχατος]] etc.), [[μεσσάτιος]] (Call.; like [[ἐσχάτιος]]), [[μεσάτιον]] name of a strap (Poll.; vgl. [[μέσαβον]]); [[μεσσότατος]] (A. R., Man.).<br />Other forms: Aeol. [[μέσσος]], Cret. Boeot. [[μέττος]].<br />Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μεσό-δμη</b>, <b class="b3">μεσ-ημβρία</b> (s. vv.); also <b class="b3">μεσαι-πόλιος</b> [[halfgrey]], [[growing grey]] (Ν 361; cf. e.g. <b class="b3">μεσό-λευκος</b>) like <b class="b3">μεσαί-τερος</b> not locatival, but metr. conditioned (Schwyzer 448).<br />Derivatives: Also adjectives, partly stilistically formally enlarged, partly from ([[τὸ]]) [[μέσον]]: 1. [[μεσήεις]] = [[μέσος]] (M269; metr. enlargement at verse-end (after [[τιμήεις]], [[τελήεις]]?), Risch $56e; see Debrunner [[Ἀντίδωρον]] 28 f. 2. <b class="b3">μεσ(σ)ήρης</b> = [[μέσος]] (E., Eratosth.; after [[ποδήρης]] a. o.). 3. [[μεσαῖος]] = [[μέσος]] (Antiph.; as [[τελευταῖος]]). 4. [[μεσάδιος]] [[central]] (Aeol. acc. to sch. D.T.; after [[διχθάδιος]] a. o., cf. also [[μεσάζω]]). 5. [[μεσίδιος]] [[in the middle]], [[equal]] (Arist.); [[μεσίδιον]] n. [[at a mediator deposed property]] with <b class="b3">-ιόω</b> [[make a deposite]] (pap., inscr.). -- 6. [[μεσίτης]] m. [[mediator]], [[arbiter]] (Redard 25 f., 260 n. 1) with <b class="b3">-ιτεύω</b> 'be a [[μ]]., balance', also [[pawn]] (Plb., pap., NT), <b class="b3">-ιτεία</b> [[mediation]], [[settlement]], [[pawning]] (J., pap.). 7. [[μέσης]] m. [[wind between ἀπαρκτίας and καικίας]] (Arist.; Schwyzer 461, Chantraine Form. 31), also [[μεσεύς]] = [[καικίας]] (Steph. in Hp.). -- 8. [[μεσότης]], <b class="b3">-ητος</b> f. [[middle]], [[mediocre]], [[moderation]] (Pl., Arist.). -- 9. [[μεσακόθεν]] adv. [[among]], [[between]] (Arcad. IVa), < <b class="b3">-αχόθεν</b> after [[πανταχόθεν]] (Thurneysen Glotta 12, 146, Schwyzer 630); not with Bechtel Gött. Nachr. 1920, 244 to Goth. <b class="b2">*midjunga</b> in [[midjun]]([[ga]])[[gards]]. -- Denomin. verbs: 1. [[μεσόω]] <b class="b2">form the middle, be in ...</b> (IA.); 2. [[μεσεύω]] [[keep the mean]], [[be neutral]] (Pl. Lg., X., Arist.); 3. [[μεσάζω]] = [[μεσόω]] (LXX, D.S.). -- On <b class="b3">μεσ(σ)ηγύς</b> s. v.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [706] <b class="b2">*medʰi̯o-</b> [[middle]]<br />Etymology: Old local adj., identical with Skt. <b class="b2">mádhya-</b>, Lat. [[medius]], Germ., e.g. Goth. [[midjis]], OHG [[mitti]] , IE <b class="b2">*médhi̯os</b> [[in the middle]]. More forms from several other languages in WP. 2, 261, Pok. 706f., W.-Hofmann s. [[medius]], Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">mádhyaḥ</b>, Feist Vgl. Wb. s. [[midjis]], Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">mẽdis</b>, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">mežá</b>. Supposition on the prehistory (adjectiv. of an adverb <b class="b2">*médhi</b>?; cf. [[μετά]]) also in Schwyzer 461 a. 627.