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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--moiety This week's theme: miscellaneous words. moiety (MOI-i-tee) noun 1. A half. 2. A portion. [From Latin medius (middle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root medhyo- (middle) that's also the source of middle, mean, medium, medal (originally a coin worth a halfpenny), mezzanine, and mediocre.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Amazingly, Carbery failed to score in the opening moiety." Ballincollig Impress; The Southern Star (Skibbereen, Ireland); Jun 16, 2007. X-Bonus If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

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