Borrowed fromFrenchmaigre.Doublet ofmeager.
maigre (notcomparable)
maigre (pluralmaigres)
Inherited fromOld Frenchmegre,meigre, fromLatinmacrum, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*mh₂ḱrós. The variant dialectal formmaire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy withaigre, or may be semi-learned.
maigre (pluralmaigres)
FromOld Frenchmegre,meigre, fromLatinmacer, macrum.