midi

• Rhymes: -ɪdi
• Homophones: middy, middie

midi (not comparable)

1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

midi (plural midis)

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

• mini
• maxi

• imid, imid-

From a compound of Old French mi (“middle”) + di (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.di/

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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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiðʲi/

midi

1. genitive singular of mide

midi

1. Alternative form of mid

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)

• mi n

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

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

1. waist