mêlée

See also: melee

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mêlée.

Noun

mêlée (plural mêlées)

1. Alternative spelling of melee

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French meslee, older meslede, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *misculāta (“mixed”), feminine past participle of *misculō, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin misceō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.le/ ~ /me.le/

• Audio (FR):

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Noun

mêlée f (plural mêlées)

1. fray
2. (rugby) scrum

Verb

mêlée f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of mêler

Derived terms

• demi de mêlée

Further reading

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