mediety

English

Etymology

From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɪˈdaɪ.ɪti/

Noun

mediety (plural medieties)

  1. (obsolete) The middle part; half; moiety.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      [creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below
    • 1846, Alfred Inigo Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, page 282:
      The rectory of Pakefield was in medieties from a period before the Norman Conquest, each mediety having its patron, who presented to his portion upon every vacancy in succession, and not in alternate patronage;
  2. Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.
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