mi-parti
/miːpɑːˈtiː//ˌmipɑɹˈti/
mi-parti adjective: vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.
Adjective
mi-parti (not comparable)
- Vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.
- They are all parted per pale, or (to vſe [Jean] Scohiers vvord) mi-partie, that is, parted longvviſe in the midſt, or perpendicularly parted, but yet ſeuerally affected in the partings […]1610, E[dmund] B[olton], “Evstace”, in The Elements of Armories, London: […] George Eld, →OCLC, page 95
- The new German Imperial flag has just been decided upon, and is adopted already by Bavaria, Würtemberg, and Baden. It is mi-partie or, sable, gules, and argent, and has for supporters the two Indians armed with maces of the Prussian crest.1871 March 1, “The German Empire”, in The Times, number 26,999, London: Francis Goodlake, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2
Noun
mi-parti (countable and uncountable, plural mi-partis)
- Clothing vertically divided into two distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; (countable) an individual garment of this type.
- All the colors of the Universe radiate off the walls and floor of this room. The being here is dressed in a miparti …1987 May 5, Roe R. Adams III, Wizardry: The Return of Werdna – The Fourth Scenario, Ogdensburg, N.Y.: Sir-Tech Software, Apple II, level/area: floor B11
- This person is beardless and dressed in a long cloak divided down the middle into two colours, red and blue, and fastened by a belt. […] [H]e has been thought to be a Latin donor, because the coat of two colours (mi-parti) would have been worn by western pilgrims coming to the Holy Land as a sign...2019, Nada Hélou, “Notes on Donor Images in the Churches of Lebanon”, in Peter Edbury, Denys Pringle, Balázs Major, editors, Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe c. 1100–1300...
Examples of mi-parti in a sentence
- Almost all the indoor servants were given three ells of coloured shortcloth, together with three ells of striped cloth for their suits, which must have been, therefore, mi-parti.1980, Stella Mary Newton, “Livery and the Dress of the Poor”, in Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340–1365...
- Another interpretation rightly refutes any symbolic hypothesis of the wearing of the mi-parti.2019, Nada Hélou, “Notes on Donor Images in the Churches of Lebanon”, in Peter Edbury, Denys Pringle, Balázs Major, editors, Bridge of...
- "Correct," echoed the third fop, in red and blue mi-parti.2020 October 27, Andrzej Sapkowski, “In which Scharley Makes an Appearance”, in David French, transl., The Tower of Fools (The Hussite...
Forms of mi-parti
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (rare) | miparti |
| Noun | |
| plural | mi-partis |
Origin of mi-parti
The adjective is a learned borrowing from French mi-parti (literally “divided down the middle”), from Middle French mi-parti, from Old French mi-parti, an adjective use of the past participle of mi-partir (“to split in half”), from mi- (prefix meaning ‘half’) + partir (“to divide up”): * Mi- is from Middle French mi (“middle”), from Old French mi, mie (“middle”), ultimately from Latin medius (“half; in the centre, midway between”, adjective) and medium (“centre, middle”, noun), and from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”, adjective). Compare medial. * Partir is from Latin partīre, the present active infinitive of partiō (“to apportion, divide”), from pars (“part, portion”, noun) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go or pass through”) or *perh₂- (“to sell”)) + -iō (suffix forming fourth-conjugation verbs). Compare party (“divided”). Though the term is mentioned beginning in the 17th century, actual use is apparently mostly recorded from the 19th century onwards (but see the 1610 quotation). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Words that rhyme with mi-parti
Questions about mi-parti
- What does mi-parti mean?
- Mi-parti means vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.
- How do you use mi-parti in a sentence?
- Almost all the indoor servants were given three ells of coloured shortcloth, together with three ells of striped cloth for their suits, which must have been, therefore, mi-parti.
- What part of speech is mi-parti?
- Mi-parti can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mi-parti?
- Mi-parti is pronounced /miːpɑːˈtiː/ (UK).
Words near mi-parti in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mi-parti (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mi-parti2.wav, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-mi-parti.wav.
Cite this entry: “mi-parti.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mi-parti. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.