meia

Etymology 1
From, from , feminine of , from. .

Noun

 * 1) sock (covering for the foot; originally short form of meia-calça)
 * 2)   a ticket sold for half its normal price, as required by law, for students and children
 * 3)  obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
 * 4)  half past (short form of meia hora)
 * 1)  obsolete unit of measure for liquids, equivalent to six pints
 * 2)  half past (short form of meia hora)

Noun

 * 1)  midfielder

Usage notes

 * The word meia, as an adverb, appears in vulgar speech because of a confusion about the role of . In this case, whenever, as an adverb, lies right before a feminine adjective, it is confused for an adjective as well, hence hypercorrected into the feminine declension . In standard speech, however, Portuguese adverbs are never inflected by grammatical gender.

Numeral

 * 1)  six (6, used instead of seis when it’s necessary to avoid confusion with rhyme três; short form of meia dúzia)