medietee

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās.

Noun

medietee

1. a half
   • 1420–40?, an unknown translator of Palladius, On Husbondrie, book XI, § xlii, lines 288–9:

     The must decocte to his medietee // Or thridde parte thay caste to thaire wyne.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: mediety

References

• “medietẹ̄ (n.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (~1975–7)