maille

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See also: maillé and mäille

English

Noun

maille (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of mail

Anagrams

Finnish

Noun

maille

  1. allative plural of maa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maj/
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French maille, from Vulgar Latin *macla, inherited from Latin macula. Doublet of macule, which was borrowed. Compare Italian maglia.

Noun

maille f (plural mailles)

  2. (sewing) stitch
  3. mesh, the gap between threads in cloth etc.
  4. link (in chainmail etc.)
  5. (graph theory) girth
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Early Medieval Latin medālia, from Late Latin mediālis, from Latin medius. Doublet of médaille, which was borrowed via Italian.

Noun

maille f (plural mailles)

  2. (obsolete) ancient currency, equivalent to half of a denier
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

maille

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

Further reading

Irish

Noun

maille

  1. genitive singular of maill

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
maille mhaille not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Noun

maille

  1. Alternative form of mayle

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula.

Noun

maille oblique singular, f (oblique plural mailles, nominative singular maille, nominative plural mailles)

  1. chainmail; mail

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