moyen
See also: moyén
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Doublet of mid and mean.
Noun
editmoyen (countable and uncountable, plural moyens)
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) Intercession; intervention.
Further reading
edit- “moyen, n1.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French moyen, from Old French moien, earlier meien, inherited from Latin mediānus. Doublet of médian, a borrowing, and also of misaine.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmoyen m (plural moyens)
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editDescendants
edit- → Swedish: mojäng
Adjective
editmoyen (feminine moyenne, masculine plural moyens, feminine plural moyennes)
- middle
- average
- (Canada, informal, euphemistic) Big; impressive; serious
- 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer mon enfant, →ISBN, page 52:
- "Tu t'es embarquée dans une moyenne galère, Biscuit!"
- You got yourself something big there, Cookie!
- (linguistics) middle
- 1976, Cornelius J. Ruigh, “Observations sur la flexion des verbes du type τρίβω, φρύγω: l'origine des alternances ῑ/ῐ et ῡ/ῠ”, in Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European linguistics: offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, June 5, 1976, →ISBN, page 340:
- [N]ormalement, le vocalisme radical du parfait moyen est semblable à celui de l'aoriste passif[.]
- Normally, the root vocalism of the perfect middle is similar to that of the aorist passive.
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editFurther reading
edit- “moyen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Scots
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”).
Noun
editmoyen (plural moyens)
Further reading
edit- “moyen, -an, n1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “moyen, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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