Other forms: mixed, mixing, mixes
To mix is to stir different things together so they become one. Mix the flour and water, mix the paint, mix well.
Mix up has two meanings and both are common: to muddle things into disorder, and to confuse one thing with another — I always mix them up. Mix with means to spend time socially with people. As a noun, a mix is the combination — a good mix of people — and also a packet of dry ingredients: cake mix. Note mixed, which describes feelings, results and marriages, and remix in music.
1verbmixTo stir different things together into one.
“Mix it until there are no lumps left.”
2verbspendTo spend time socially with people.
“He does not mix much with the rest of the team.”
3nouncombinationA combination of different things.
“It is an odd mix of styles and it works.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
mix is a combining.
Also accepted in games: blend, combine
The verb was back-formed from mixed, itself from Latin miscere, to mix — the same root as miscellaneous, promiscuous and meddle. English took the participle first and worked backwards to a verb, which is an unusual direction of travel.
Proto-Indo-European
*meyḱ-
Proto-West Germanic
*miskijan
Old English
*mixian
Middle English
mixen
English, today
mix
Built from
From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European miḱ-sḱé-ti, from meyǵ-, meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with stq miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μῑ́γνῡμῐ (“to mix”), cu мѣсити (“to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (“mixed”), Persian آمیختن (“to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA