medle
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Verb edit
medle (third-person singular simple present medles, present participle medling, simple past and past participle medled)
- Obsolete form of meddle.
- 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
- But the young man Hippomedon making her priuie vnto it, at the firſt ſhe was amaſed withall, and bad him hold his peace if he were wiſe, and not medle in matters vnpoſſible and vnprofitable.
Czech edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech mnedle/medle, from mne + dle.
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medle
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Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old French medle, mesle, from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon).
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Noun edit
medle (rare)
- The fruit of the common medlar (Crataegus germanica, syn. Mespilus germanica)
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References edit
- “medle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-19.