midi

• Rhymes: -ɪdi
• Homophones: middy, middie

midi (not comparable)

1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

   midi skirt

midi (plural midis)

1. (fashion) A coat, skirt, or boot having such a hemline.
   • 2015 August 21, Lauren Cochrane, “The rise of the midi: next season's boot height”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Vogue recommends mixing midis – ie wearing the midi-boot with the midi-skirt – which is one option (very Marni), as is the current silhouette on the high street.

2. (publishing) Synonym of Berliner (“newspaper format”).

• mini
• maxi

• imid, imid-

midi

1. inflection of midar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old French midi,^[1] from mi (“middle”) +‎ di (“day”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /mi.di/

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midi m (plural midis)

1. noon, midday (time of the day at which the sun reaches its highest point)
2. south (cardinal direction)

   Synonym: sud

3. alternative letter-case form of Midi
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:

     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.

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compass points: points cardinaux:  ^[edit]

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

From French midi (“noon”).

• IPA^(key): /midi/

midi

1. noon, midday

From Proto-Cushitic *matħ- (“head”). Cognates include Somali madax, Maay mada, Rendille matah, Garre madah, Arbore mete, Daasanach me, Yaaku miteh, Baiso mete, Oromo mataa, Beja mat.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ði/, [mi.ðə]

midi m (plural mididaa)

1. head

Lamberti, M. (1981). Der Dialekt der Jiddu, af-Jiddu. (pp. 24, 38, 94).

• medi, midé, middi, middiz, middy, midiz, midy, midye, miedi, mydé, mydi, mydy, myesy

From mi + di.

midi oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural midis, nominative singular midis, nominative plural midi)^[1]

1. midday, noon

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲi.ðʲi/

midi

1. genitive singular of mide

midi

1. alternative form of mid

Borrowed from French midi or English midi.

midi m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. midi

midi m (plural midis)

1. midi; midiskirt

midi

1. skin

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