1.2Phonetics (of a speech sound) in the middle of a word.
‘a medial consonant’
‘Epenthesis also occurs after medial m in some words: for example, Latin camera and numerus became French chambre and nombre, English chamber and number.’
‘A total of 15 items were included on this task requiring students to delete initial, medial, and final phonemes from words.’
‘Children were asked to remove phonemes from the beginning or medial portions of one-, two-, and three-syllable words.’
‘An obvious device for poets and lyricists who are concerned with sound is alliteration, the repetition of initial or medial sounds in two or more adjacent words.’
‘There is no b in dummy, derived from dumb, or crummy, derived from crumb, and although b is not pronounced finally in bomb, medial b is pronounced in bombard.’
mean, median, medial, middle
1.3Phonetics (of a vowel) pronounced in the middle of the mouth; central.