midi

See also: Midi, MIDI, miði, and mídí

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪdi
• Homophones: middy, middie

Adjective

midi (not comparable)

1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

Noun

midi (plural midis)

1. A coat or skirt having such a hemline.
2. Synonym of Berliner (“newspaper format”)

See also

• mini
• maxi

Anagrams

• imid, imid-

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French

Etymology

Either reformed in Old French from Old French mi (“middle”) + di (“day”), or inherited from Latin merīdiēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.di/

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Noun

midi m (plural midis)

1. noon, midday
2. south

   Synonym: sud

3. (specifically) southern France, the Midi

   Synonym: Midi

   • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.i:

     Mais, après tout, les propos auxquels on mêlait son nom n'étaient peut-être que des propos; du bruit, des mots, des paroles; moins que des paroles, des palabres, comme dit l'énergique langue du midi.

Derived terms

• après-midi
• chercher midi à quatorze heures
• voir midi à sa porte

Further reading

• “midi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiðʲi/

Noun

midi

1. genitive singular of mide

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
midi also mmidi after a proclitic	midi pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Saxon

Preposition

midi

1. Alternative form of mid

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Spanish

Noun

midi m (plural midis)

1. midi; midiskirt

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Watiwa

Noun

midi

1. skin

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• mi n

Etymology

From Old Norse miðja, Proto-Germanic *midjǭ and *midją (“middle”).

Noun

midi n or f (definite singular mije or mija, indefinite plural midi, definite plural mija or mijen)

1. waist