maigre

Borrowed from French maigre.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡɚ/

maigre (not comparable)

1. (cooking) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
2. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

maigre (plural maigres)

1. A kind of fish; the meagre.

• Margie, gamier, imager, mirage

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macrum, accusative of macer, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros. The variant dialectal form maire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy with aigre, or may be semi-learned.

• IPA^(key): /mɛɡʁ/

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maigre (plural maigres)

1. meagre, skinny
2. lean, thin

• amaigrir
• maigrement
• maigreur
• maigrir

maigre m (plural maigres)

1. meagre (fish)

• “maigre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• mirage

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macer, macrum.

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maigre m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) thin

• maigrir (“to lose weight”)