moiety
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moiety
- /ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/ UK
- /ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/ US
- /-ɾi/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French moytié, from Old French meitié (“half”) (modern French moitié (“half”)), from Late Latin medietās (“centre, midpoint; half”), from Latin medius (“half; middle”) + -tās (from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)). Medius is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”), possibly from *me-dʰi- (“among; with”), from *me (“in the middle of; among; with”). The word is a doublet of mediety.
noun moieties · moietie · moyity
- A half. They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in w
- A share or portion, especially a smaller share. "Thou must stand in the flame while thy senses will endure, and when it embraces thee suck the fire down into thy very heart, and let it leap and play around thy every part, so that thou lose no moiety of its virtue."
- Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. The villages are divided into two patrilineal totemic moieties and two patrilineal ceremonial moieties. The totemic moieties are subdivided into patrilineal clans (ngaiva): there are between fifty and a hundred clans of which between ten or twenty are represented in any one village[…].
- A specific segment of a molecule. Aniline has both a phenyl and an amino moiety.
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noun share or portion
| Español | porción, fracción |
|---|---|
| Français | fraction, portion congrue |
| Русский | до́ля dólja, часть častʹ |
noun specific segment of a molecule
| Español | grupo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 官能團 /官能团 guānnéngtuán |
| Français | groupement, groupe fonctionnel |
| Русский | гру́ппа grúppa |
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title = {moiety},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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