Mid-15c., also mixte, "consisting of different elements or parts," from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre "to mix, mingle, blend" (from PIE root *meik- "to mix," also see mix (v.)). Old English as miscian (apparently borrowed from the Latin verb) did not survive into Middle English. In cinematography and broadcasting, "combine two pictures or sounds by fading out and in," 1922. Intransitive sense of "become united or blended promiscuously" is from 1630s that of "become joined or associated" is from 1660s. Meaning "to form by mingling or blending different ingredients" is from 1570s. Perhaps it was avoided out of potential confusion with a group of common Middle English words such as mixen "dung-hill, pile of refuse," mix "filth, dung, dirt" mixed "foul, filthy," from PIE root *meigh- "to urinate" (source of Latin mingere, etc.). 1530s, transitive, "unite or blend promiscuously into one mass, body, or assemblage," a back-formation from Middle English myxte (early 15c.) "mingled, blended, composed of more than one element, of mixed nature," from Anglo-French mixte (late 13c.), from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere "to mix, mingle, blend fraternize with throw into confusion," from PIE root *meik- "to mix."Ī rare verb before Elizabethan times.
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