MEDIA

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

pl. of Medium.

2.
n.

One of the sonant mutes b, d, g (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, p, t, k (p, t, k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) f, th, x (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.


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