maille

maille (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mail

• mallei

maille

1. allative plural of maa

• IPA^(key): /maj/

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From Old French maille, from Vulgar Latin *macla, inherited from Latin macula. Doublet of macule, which was borrowed. Compare Italian maglia.

maille f (plural mailles)

1. (sewing) stitch
2. mesh, the gap between threads in cloth etc.
3. link (in chainmail etc.)
4. (graph theory) girth

• cotte de mailles
• maillon
• passer entre les mailles du filet

From Vulgar Latin *medālia, substantivization of Late Latin mediālia (with loss of one /j/ via dissimilation), neuter plural of mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Latin medius. Doublet of médaille, which was borrowed through Italian.

maille f (plural mailles)

1. (obsolete) ancient currency, equivalent to half of a denier

• avoir maille à partir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maille

1. inflection of mailler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

maille

1. Alternative form of mayle

From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula.

maille f (oblique plural mailles, nominative singular maille, nominative plural mailles)

1. chainmail; mail
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Hauberc li vest de buene maille

     The hauberk clothed him with good chainmail

• French: maille
• → Middle English: mayle, mail, maile, maille, male, mayl, mayll, maylle, meile
  • English: mail
  • Scots: mail
• → Old Portuguese: malla (“mesh”)
  • Galician: malla
  • Portuguese: malha