Midi

Borrowed from French Midi (literally “south”).

the Midi

2. A cultural region referring to the south of France; approximately corresponding to the regions where Occitan is or was spoken.
   • 1907 June, E. N. Vallandigiiam, “Our Men of the Midi”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 September 2025:

     Some thousands of French Huguenots settled in the South between 1670 and the end of the seventeenth century; but these immigrants included many French of the Midi, so that the newcomers tended to intensify characteristics already developing in the native population under climatic influences.

   • 2006 October 29, Jill Insley, “French leave that wasn't so fruitful”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 September 2014:

     For sale: 75-acre peach and grape farm in the Midi, France - £595,000. Farmhouse included. […] Not surprisingly, the average age of French farmers has dropped from 55 to 40 during the past 15 years. But even so, the owner of the Midi farm has discovered the hard way that a move across the channel is not without risk.

   • 2024 July 20, Fiona Sampson, “The other Dordogne: exploring France’s unspoiled Périgord region”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 September 2024:

     Start to haggle and you’ll realise they’re speaking not only French but something earthier. This is Occitan, ancient language of the Midi, the Pyrenees and parts of north-west Italy.

• imid, imid-

• midi

From midi (“south”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.di/

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le Midi m

1. the Midi (southernmost cultural region of France)

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiðʲə/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiɣʲə/

Midi

1. genitive singular of Mide