admix

[ ad-miks ]

verb (used with or without object)

, ad·mixed or ad·mixt, ad·mix·ing.

1. to mingle with or add to something else.

admix

/ ədˈmɪks /

verb

1. rare.
   tr to mix or blend

Word History and Origins

Origin of admix¹

1525–35; ad- + mix, modeled on Latin admiscēre ( admixtus past participle)

Word History and Origins

Origin of admix¹

C16: back formation from obsolete admixt, from Latin admīscēre to mix with

Example Sentences

Using ancestry decomposition techniques an international research team has revealed a deeply divergent ancestry among admixed populations from the Angolan Namib desert.

From Science Daily

"The admixed genetics from Western Europe and the Near East cats were subsequently spread to Portuguese colonies in the Americas."

From Salon

“An important aspect of our study is that it highlights humans, and hominins, were moving in and out of Africa for hundreds of thousands of years and occasionally admixing,” said Akey.

From The Guardian

It “remains striking,” the new paper remarked, that these first migrants were only “minimally admixed” — but admixed they were.

From New York Times

Whatever the correct story, what does knowing that their families had been admixing with their neighbors tells us?

From Scientific American