Etymology

midpiece

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Today it means: The part of a spermatozoon between the head and the tail, approximately 50 μm in humans; it consists of mitochondria, centrioles, and an axoneme. Full definition →

English piece ← Middle English mid ← Old English midd
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Englishpiece
  12. English todaymidpiece

From mid- + piece.

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