MEDとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

形容詞

med (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

2. Clipping of median

派生語

名詞

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:

     Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
     Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
     Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
     Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

   • 2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

     Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.

   • 2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:

     “What meds?”
     “It's a long story.”
     “What meds?”
     “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”

   • 2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR‎:

     “I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.

2. (informal, uncountable) Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.

   My brother studied med at Cambridge.

3. (informal, countable) A medic; a doctor.
   • 2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:

     A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.

派生語

動詞

med

1. Clipping of medicate

派生語

語源 2

動詞

med

1. (UK, dialect) Pronunciation spelling of might.
   • 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

アナグラム

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu.

発音

• IPA: /meːd/

名詞

mēd f

1. reward
   • 5th century, Undley bracteate

     ᚷᚫᚷᚩᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᚫᚷᚫ᛫ᛗᛖᛞᚢ

     gægógæ mægæ medu

     (Some possible translations:)

     this she-wolf is a reward to a kinsman

     abracadabra: to a kinsman this reward

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: mede, meede
  • English: meed
  • Scots: med

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

語源 2

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

語源 3

名詞

med

1. alternative form of mede (“reward”)

語源 4

前置詞

med

1. alternative form of mid

形容詞

med

1. alternative form of mid

代名詞

mēd

1. Old Latin form of mē
   • 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:

     𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉

     MANIOS:MED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVMASIOI

     Manius made me for Numasius

   • 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:

     𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃 / […] / 𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄𐌉𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌍𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌀𐌋𐌏𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏𐌃

     IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / […] / DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD
     iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mitāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd / […] / duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi nē mēd malo(s) statōd

     The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee / […] / A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.

   • c. 620–600 BC, Tita Vendia vase:

     𐌄𐌂𐌏𐌖𐌓𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌉𐌀𐌔𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓[𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌]𐌄𐌃𐌖𐌇𐌄[𐌂𐌄𐌃]

     ECOVRNATITAVENDIASMAMAR[COSM]EDVHE[CED]
     eco urna tita vendias mamar[cos m]ed vhe[ced]

     I am the urn of Tita Vendia. Mamar[cos had me made].

   • 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I 2658; image (page 18)):

     𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃

     HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD
     Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd.

     Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son.

   • c. 500 BC, Garigliano bowl:

     𐌍𐌄𐌉[- - -]𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌𐌊𐌏𐌌𐌌𐌄𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌏𐌊𐌉𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌄𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌏

     NEIPARIMEDESOMKOMMEOISSOKIOISTRIVOIADDEOMDVO
     nei pari med esom kom meois sokiois trifos audeom duo[m]

     Do not take me! I am with my three companions (property) of the two Audii