🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Medida

Pronunciation / Transliteration: meˈðiða

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Measure/ˈmɛʒ.ər/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #310 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La receta requiere una medida de harina."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A unit or standard of measurement.

    "The recipe calls for a measure of flour."
As verb
  1. 1

    To ascertain the size, amount, or degree of something.

    "Please measure the length of the table."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'mesure', originating from the Latin 'mensura', meaning 'a measuring, measure'. This traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root *med-, meaning 'to take appropriate measures'.

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