maille
English edit
Noun edit
maille (uncountable)
- Alternative form of mail
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Noun edit
maille
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French maille, from Vulgar Latin *macla, inherited from Latin macula. Doublet of macule, which was borrowed. Compare Italian maglia.
Noun edit
maille f (plural mailles)
- (sewing) stitch
- mesh, the gap between threads in cloth etc.
- link (in chainmail etc.)
- (graph theory) girth
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Early Medieval Latin medālia, from Late Latin mediālis, from Latin medius. Doublet of médaille, which was borrowed via Italian.
Noun edit
maille f (plural mailles)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
maille
- inflection of mailler:
Further reading edit
- “maille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Noun edit
maille
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
maille | mhaille | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle English edit
Noun edit
maille
- Alternative form of mayle
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula.
Noun edit
maille oblique singular, f (oblique plural mailles, nominative singular maille, nominative plural mailles)
- chainmail; mail
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Hauberc li vest de buene maille
- The hauberk clothed him with good chainmail