"mitan" meaning in French

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Louisiana Creole",
      "lang_code": "lou",
      "word": "mitan"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Louisiana Creole",
      "lang_code": "lou",
      "word": "miton"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "mitan",
        "t": "middle, center"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French mitan (“middle, center”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "medium tantum",
        "t": "middle, center"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin medium tantum (“middle, center”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French mitan (“middle, center”), from Latin medium tantum (“middle, center”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mitans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "mitan m (plural mitans)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Acadian French",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 11 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "poteau-mitan"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
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              3,
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          ],
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              4,
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          ],
          "english": "the middle of the day",
          "text": "le mitan de la journée",
          "translation": "the middle of the day",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          ],
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          ],
          "english": "[loosely] Me, when I was little / I longed to grow old / Well now I'm at an age / Where I'm torn between the two [literally: I find myself in the middle of the two...]",
          "ref": "2020, “L'eau entre mes doigts”, in Un homme et son piano, performed by P'tit Belliveau:",
          "text": "Moi quand j'étais jeune / Je voulais être plus vieux / Là asteur à mon âge / J'me trouve dans l'mitan de les deux...",
          "translation": "[loosely] Me, when I was little / I longed to grow old / Well now I'm at an age / Where I'm torn between the two [literally: I find myself in the middle of the two...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "middle, center"
      ],
      "id": "en-mitan-fr-noun-hB9ZxNnF",
      "links": [
        [
          "middle",
          "middle"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Acadia",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or dialectal; Acadia, Louisiana) middle, center"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mi.tɑ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mitɑ̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɑ̃tɑ̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mito]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑ̃"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-o"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mitan"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "poteau-mitan"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Louisiana Creole",
      "lang_code": "lou",
      "word": "mitan"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Louisiana Creole",
      "lang_code": "lou",
      "word": "miton"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "mitan",
        "t": "middle, center"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French mitan (“middle, center”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "medium tantum",
        "t": "middle, center"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin medium tantum (“middle, center”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French mitan (“middle, center”), from Latin medium tantum (“middle, center”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mitans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "mitan m (plural mitans)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Acadian French",
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French dialectal terms",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms derived from Old French",
        "French terms inherited from Latin",
        "French terms inherited from Old French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with archaic senses",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "French terms with usage examples",
        "Louisiana French",
        "Pages with 11 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:French/o",
        "Rhymes:French/o/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃",
        "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "the middle of the day",
          "text": "le mitan de la journée",
          "translation": "the middle of the day",
          "type": "example"
        },
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              95,
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            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
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              146,
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            ]
          ],
          "english": "[loosely] Me, when I was little / I longed to grow old / Well now I'm at an age / Where I'm torn between the two [literally: I find myself in the middle of the two...]",
          "ref": "2020, “L'eau entre mes doigts”, in Un homme et son piano, performed by P'tit Belliveau:",
          "text": "Moi quand j'étais jeune / Je voulais être plus vieux / Là asteur à mon âge / J'me trouve dans l'mitan de les deux...",
          "translation": "[loosely] Me, when I was little / I longed to grow old / Well now I'm at an age / Where I'm torn between the two [literally: I find myself in the middle of the two...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "middle, center"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "middle",
          "middle"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Acadia",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or dialectal; Acadia, Louisiana) middle, center"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mi.tɑ̃/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mitɑ̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɑ̃tɑ̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mito]",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑ̃"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-o"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mitan"
}