Mediary
/ˈmiː.di.ə.ri/noun
Serving as a medium or intermediary; relating to something in the middle.
Did you know?The word ultimately comes from Latin *medius* (“middle”), a root that also gave English words like *medicine* and *mediate*, because the “healer” and the “go-between” were both imagined as figures who bridge a dangerous gap.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*medhyo-
“middle”
Latin
Latin
medius
“middle; in the middle”
Late Latin
Latin
mediarius
“intermediate; belonging to the middle”
Middle English
English
mediary
“serving as an intermediary; middle”
Modern English
English
mediary
“serving as a medium or intermediary”