méger
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan mejer (compare modern Occitan miegé, miegié, megié, megé), itself from a Late Latin mediārius or derived from meg, from Latin medius (“middle, half”).
Pronunciation
Noun
méger m (plural mégers, feminine mégère)
- (archaic) sharecropper
- Synonym: métayer
Further reading
- “méger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.