demy

• (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)

1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
2. (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
   • 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132,

     […] by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships; […]

• double demy
• music demy
• quad demy

• emyd

demy m (plural demys)

1. half (50% of something)

• French: demi