## Meanings
1. A way of communicating or presenting information.
2. A substance through which something passes or travels.
3. A person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead.

## Examples
- Painting was her favourite medium for expressing ideas.
- Sound cannot travel without a medium such as air or water.
- The grieving family visited a medium to contact their late father.

## Derived Forms
- biomedium
- cryomedium
- geomedium
- hypermedium
- intermedium
- lower-medium
- medium-brow
- medium-chain
- medium-quality
- mediumic
- mediumist
- mediumize

## Related Forms
- mean
- median
- mediate
- mediation
- mediator
- mediocre
- mediocrity

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *meðjos
- Root: *médʰyos

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.

## AI Etymology
Medium was borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson. In present-day English its meanings include a way of communicating or presenting information, a substance through which something passes or travels, and a person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead. The historical chain runs through *meðjos (Proto-Italic) and *médʰyos (Proto-Indo-European). Related and derived forms include mean, median, mediate, and biomedium.

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