medietas
ὃν οὐ τύπτει λόγος οὐδὲ ῥάβδος → if words don't get through, neither a beating will | if the carrot doesn't work, the stick will not work either | whom words do not strike, neither does the rod
Latin > English
medietas medietatis N F :: center/mid point/part; half; intermediate course/state; fact of being in middle
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mĕdĭĕtas: ātis, f. medius,
I the middle, place in the middle, midst (in Cic. only as transl. of the Gr. μεσότης; elsewhere postclass.).
I Lit.: vix audeo dicere medietates, quas Graeci μεσότητας appellant, Cic. Univ. 7, 20: narium, Lact. 10, 19: totius loci, App. M. 2, p. 116, 6: sic feliciore loco medietatis est positus (sc. homo), App. Asclep. 6, p. 79: in mediatate distinctis aquis, Tert. de Bapt. 3.—
B Transf., a half, moiety (syn. dimidium): decoquere aliquid usque ad medietatem, Pall. Mart. 10, 10 and 30: sulcum usque ad medietatem replere, id. Mai. 3: debiti, Cod. Th. 4, 19, 1.—
II Trop., a middle course, medium: medietatem quandam sequi, Dig. 5, 4, 3 fin.; Arn. 2, 65: ejusmodi medietates inter virtutes et vitia intercedere, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 14, 3.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mĕdĭĕtās, ātis, f. (medius), le milieu, centre : Cic. Tim. 23 ; Lact. Inst. 10, 19 || moitié : Pall. 4, 10, 10 ; Cod. Th. 4, 19, 1 || juste milieu : Dig. 5, 4, 3 || nature intermédiaire : Arn. 2, 31.
Latin > German (Georges)
medietās, ātis, f. (medius), I) die Mitte, als Eigenschaft, die Stelle in der Mitte; zuerst als Übersetzungsversuch von μεσότης b. Cic. Tim. 23 (im Plur.): dann bei Spät., sub ipsa medietate narium, Lact.: totius loci, Apul. – meton., die Hälfte, arboris, sulci, Pallad.: debiti, Cod. Iust.: hereditatis, Amm.: agro ex medietate (zur Hälfte, halb) sublato, Eutr. – II) übtr., das Mittel, die Mittelstraße, Arnob. u. Apul.: medietatem quandam sequi, ICt. – Vgl. den Artikel medietas von Wölfflin im Archiv 3, 458 ff. u. 9, 14.
Latin > Chinese
medietas, atis. f. (medius.) :: 一半
