métayer

From an alteration of Old French moitoier, moitoieor, moitieur, from Late Latin medietārius, from Latin medius (“middle, half”). Or alternatively from moitié +‎ -ier. See also Italian mezzadro, Spanish mediero.

• IPA^(key): /me.te.je/, /me.tɛ.je/

métayer m (plural métayers, feminine métayère)

1. sharecropper, metayer [from mid-12th c.]

• méger (archaic)

• métayage

• moitié

• “métayer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).