mélange

See also: melange, Melange, and mélangé

English

Noun

mélange (plural mélanges)

1. Alternative form of melange
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange.

Anagrams

• gleeman

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.lɑ̃ʒ/

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Etymology 1

From Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), apparently a borrowing from Frankish *misklinga (“mix, mixture”), from Frankish *misklōn (“to mix”). Compare Old High German miscilunga, miskilunga, miskelunga (“mixture, assortment, combination, blend”).

Alternatively, derived from Old French mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *misculāre + -inges, a suffix from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *-ingo (“-ing”). Compare also Old High German miscilōn, miskilōn, miskelōn (“to mix”).

Noun

mélange m (plural mélanges)

1. mixture, blend

Derived terms

• mélanger

Descendants

• → English: melange
• → German: Melange
• → Polish: melanż
• → Romanian: melanj

Etymology 2

Verb

mélange

1. first-person singular present indicative of mélanger
2. third-person singular present indicative of mélanger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mélanger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mélanger
5. second-person singular imperative of mélanger

Further reading

• “mélange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.