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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Media  \Me"di*a\,  n.;  pl  {Medi[ae]}  (-[=e]).  [NL.,  fr  L.  medius 
  middle.]  (Phonetics) 
  One  of  the  sonant  mutes  [beta],  [delta],  [gamma]  (b,  d,  g), 
  in  Greek,  or  of  their  equivalents  in  other  languages,  so 
  named  as  intermediate  between  the  tenues,  [pi],  [tau], 
  [kappa]  (p,  t,  k),  and  the  aspirat[ae]  (aspirates)  [phi], 
  [theta],  [chi]  (ph  or  f,  th  ch).  Also  called  {middle  mute}, 
  or  {medial},  and  sometimes  {soft  mute}. 




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