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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1465/
- Published: 2019-05-29T18:15:21.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-22T21:16:04.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

moiety (noun) – 1\. A half.  
2\. A part, portion, or share.  
3\. (Anthropology) Either of two kinship groups based on unilateral descent that together make up a tribe or society.  
4\. (Chemistry) A well-defined part of a larger molecule.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/moiety?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Moiety is one of thousands of words that English speakers borrowed from French. The Anglo-French moité (meaning “a half” or “part of something”) comes from Late Latin medietat-, meaning “a half.” Around the same time that moiety was borrowed from Anglo-French, medietat- was also borrowed directly from Latin as mediety, a word which can also mean “a half.” Medietat- comes from Latin medius (meaning “middle”), which has contributed to such English words as medium, meridian, and milieu.