mêlée
See also: melee
English
Etymology
Noun
mêlée (plural mêlées)
- Alternative spelling of melee
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
Noun
mêlée f (plural mêlées)
Verb
mêlée f
- feminine singular of the past participle of mêler
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mêlée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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