moitié

Inherited from Middle French moytié, from Old French meitié, from Late Latin medietātem (“half”), from Latin medius (“middle, half”). Compare the borrowed doublet médiété. Cognate with English moiety.

• IPA^(key): /mwa.tje/

• Audio; “une moitié”:

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [mo.t͡ʃe]

moitié f (plural moitiés)

1. half
2. (by extension) significant other

• à moitié
• douce moitié

• métayer
• mi-
• mitoyen
• moyen

• demi
• semi

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