mélange

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See also: melange, Melange, and mélangé

English

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Noun

mélange (plural mélanges)

  1. Alternative form of melange

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.lɑ̃ʒ/
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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).

Noun

mélange m (plural mélanges)

  1. mixture, blend
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: melange
  • → German: Melange
  • → Polish: melanż
  • → Romanian: melanj

Etymology 2

Verb

mélange

  1. inflection of mélanger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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