# moyen
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Doublet of mid and mean.

### Noun

moyen (countable and uncountable, plural moyens)
* (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) Intercession; intervention.

### Further reading

* “moyen, n1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French moyen, from Old French moien, earlier meien, inherited from Latin mediānus. Doublet of médian, a borrowing, and also of misaine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mwa.jɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

moyen m (plural moyens)
* way, method, mean of doing something
* medium

#### Synonyms

* capacité

#### Derived terms

* au moyen de
* avec les moyens du bord
* employer les grands moyens
* la fin justifie les moyens
* moyen de transport
* moyens du bord
* oreille moyenne
* perdre ses moyens
* qui veut la fin veut les moyens
* vivre au-dessus de ses moyens

#### Descendants

* → Swedish: mojäng

### Adjective

moyen (feminine moyenne, masculine plural moyens, feminine plural moyennes)
* middle
* average
* (Canada, informal, euphemistic) Big; impressive; serious
** 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer mon enfant, →ISBN, page 52:"Tu t’es embarquée dans une moyenne galère, Biscuit!"You got yourself something big there, Cookie!
* (linguistics) middle
** 1976, Cornelius J. Ruigh, “Observations sur la flexion des verbes du type τρίβω, φρύγω: l'origine des alternances ῑ/ῐ et ῡ/ῠ”, in Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European linguistics: offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, June 5, 1976, →ISBN, page 340:[N]ormalement, le vocalisme radical du parfait moyen est semblable à celui de l’aoriste passif[.]Normally, the root vocalism of the perfect middle is similar to that of the aorist passive.

#### Synonyms

* ordinaire

#### Derived terms

* à moyen terme
* classe moyenne
* Moyen Âge
* moyen anglais
* moyen breton
* moyen français
* moyen gallois
* moyen irlandais
* moyen néerlandais
* moyen perse
* poids moyen

#### Related terms

* moyennement
* Moyen Âge, Moyen-Âge
* Moyen-Orient

### See also

* médian

### Further reading

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

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* moyan, moin

### Etymology

From Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”).

### Noun

moyen (plural moyens)
* mediation; intervention

### Further reading

* “moyen, -an, n$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “moyen, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.