Grammar and Phonetics. Of a consonant: plosive, stopped. Obsolete.

Phonetics. Designating a (voiced) unaspirated stop. Cf. media, n.1 1. Obsolete.

Philology. Phonetics. Of consonantal sounds: = medial, adj. 2c. Obsolete. rare.

A designation formerly applied to a voiceless stopped consonant; by some later writers, to a stopped consonant generally.

Phonetics. Of a consonant-sound: Formed by complete closure of the orinasal passages; explosive.