mellemstor

Mellemstor is a Danish adjective meaning "medium-sized" or "of moderate size." It is used to describe objects, animals, organizations or other entities that are intermediate in scale between small and large.

The word is a compound of mellem ("between" or "middle") and stor ("large" or "big"). Like other Danish adjectives, it inflects for gender, number and definiteness: common gender indefinite mellemstor, neuter indefinite mellemstort, and plural/definite mellemstore. Comparable forms appear in other Scandinavian languages (Norwegian mellemstor/mellomstor, Swedish mellanstor).

Mellemstor is used in everyday speech and formal contexts. Examples include en mellemstor hund (a medium-sized dog), et mellemstort hus (a medium-sized house), and mellemstore virksomheder (medium-sized enterprises). In economic and administrative contexts the term often corresponds to the category of medium-sized enterprises within the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) framework, typically distinguished from micro, small and large companies according to employee count and turnover.

The term also appears in technical descriptions, taxonomy, product sizing and marketing. Its pragmatic meaning depends on context and may be relative rather than strictly defined. Equivalent translations into other languages include English "medium-sized," German "mittelgroß," and Dutch "middelgroot."