Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moyen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables
moyen
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Intercession; intervention.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Doublet of mid and mean.

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Inflected Forms

moyens (plural)

Questions

What does moyen mean?
Intercession; intervention.
Where does moyen come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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