mix

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Translingual

Symbol

mix

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mixtepec Mixtec.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mixtepec Mixtec terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: micks, Micks, Mick's

Alternative forms

• mixe (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan, from Proto-Germanic *miskijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱé-ti, from *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μίγνυμι (mígnumi, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic мѣсити (měsiti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (miśra, “mixed”), Persian آمیختن (âmixtan, “to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

Verb

mix (third-person singular simple present mixes, present participle mixing, simple past and past participle mixed)

1. (transitive) To stir together.

2. (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
3. (ambitransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
4. (transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).

5. (transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).

6. (transitive, music) To produce a finished version of (a recording).

7. (ambitransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (stir two or more substances together): blend, combine, mingle, intermix, mix together, mix up; See also Thesaurus:mix
• (combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate): mix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.

Noun

mix (plural mixes)

1. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
2. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
3. A preparation, usually in the form of a powder, into which other ingredients can be mixed to prepare a specified foodstuff.

4. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.

5. (music) The finished version of a recording.

6. (US, slang, uncountable) A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.

   Synonym: cut

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Belarusian: мікс (miks)
• → Polish: miks
• → Russian: микс (miks)
• → Turkish: miks, mix
• → Ukrainian: мікс (miks)

Translations

References

Further reading

• “mix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mix”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• IMX, XMI

Catalan

Etymology

Probably from Andalusian Arabic مش (mašš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmiʃ]

Noun

mix m (plural mixos, feminine mixa)

1. (usually repeated) a sound used to call a domestic cat
2. (colloquial) the domestic cat

Synonyms

• (domestic cat): gat, moix

Further reading

• “mix”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “mix”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese

Etymology

From English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪk̚s⁵⁵/

Noun

mix

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) person of mixed race (Classifier: 個／个 c)

Synonyms

• 混血兒／混血儿

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmíːʃ]

Noun

mīx (inanimate)

1. second-person singular possessive singular of īxtli; (it is) your eye.
2. second-person singular possessive plural of īxtli; (they are) your eyes.

Cypriot Arabic

Preposition

mix

1. alternative form of mixl

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 424

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪks/
• Hyphenation: mix
• Rhymes: -ɪks

Noun

mix m (plural mixen, diminutive mixje n)

1. mix, mixture
2. hybrid

Synonyms

• mengeling
• kruising

Derived terms

• cakemix

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miks/

Noun

mix m (plural mix or mixes)

1. (music) mix

Related terms

• mixer
• mixeur

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mix

1. singular imperative of mixen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of mixen

Old English

Noun

mix n

1. alternative form of meox

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiɡs/ [ˈmiɣ̞s]
• Rhymes: -iɡs
• Syllabification: mix

Noun

mix m (plural mix)

1. mix