mélange

See also: melange, Melange, and mélangé

English

Noun

mélange (plural mélanges)

1. Alternative form of melange
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange.

Anagrams

• gleeman

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.lɑ̃ʒ/

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), apparently a borrowing from Frankish *misklinga (“mixture”), from Frankish *misklōn (“to mix”). Compare Old High German miskilunga (“mixture, mess”). Alternatively, derived natively from Old French mescler (“to mix”), from Early Medieval Latin misculare. Equivalent to mêler +‎ -ange (either directly or by surface analysis).

Noun

mélange m (plural mélanges)

1. mixture, blend

Derived terms

• mélanger

Descendants

• → English: melange
• → German: Melange
• → Polish: melanż
• → Romanian: melanj

Etymology 2

Verb

mélange

1. inflection of mélanger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mélange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.