mélange
English
Noun
mélange (plural mélanges)
- Alternative form of melange
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.lɑ̃ʒ/
Audio (FR) (file)
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).
Derived terms
Verb
mélange
- inflection of mélanger:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “mélange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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