immix: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Sep. 29, 2014

immix \ih-MIKS\ verb 1. to mix in; mingle. Quotes Ye woodland choir that chant your idle loves, / Ye cease to charm — Eliza is no more! / Ye heathy wastes, immix'd with reedy fens. -- Robert Burns, "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo," 1791 Origin Immix is a back formation from the Middle English immixt and ultimately comes from the Latin word immiscēre meaning “to blend.”

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