Brewer's: Medina

(Economy, Latin medium, the golden mean.) Step-sister of Elissa and Perissa, but they could never agree upon any subject. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.)

Medina
means in Arabic “city.” The city so called is “Medinat al Nabi” (city of the prophet).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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