maigre

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French maigre. Doublet of meager.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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maigre (not comparable)

  1. (cooking) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
  2. Belonging to a fast day or fast.
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Noun

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maigre (plural maigres)

  1. A kind of fish; the meagre.

Anagrams

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French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macrum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. The variant dialectal form maire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy with aigre, or may be semi-learned.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɛɡʁ/
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Adjective

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maigre (plural maigres)

  1. meagre, skinny
  2. lean, thin

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Pinji: maigue, maigre

Noun

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maigre m (plural maigres)

  1. meagre (fish)

Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macer, macrum.

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Adjective

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maigre m or f

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) thin

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