asse

See also: asses, Asse, ässe, assé, and -asse

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /æs/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
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  • Rhymes: -æs

Noun

asse (plural asses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ass

Noun

asse (plural asses)

  1. (obsolete) A small fox-like animal (Vulpes chama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.
    • 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10‎, page 769:
      South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (F. cama) } a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for asse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

asse

  1. (Carcoforo) to eat

References

French

Pronunciation
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Noun

asse m (plural asses)

  1. a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈas.se/
  • Rhymes: -asse
  • Hyphenation: às‧se

Etymology 1

From Latin axis, axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

  1. board (of wood)
    Synonyms: pancone, tavola
  2. beam (gymnastic)

Etymology 2

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

Noun

asse m (plural assi)

  1. axle
  2. (mathematics, physics) axis
  3. (anatomy) axis (vertebra)
    Synonym: epistrofeo
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin as.

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

asse

  1. ablative singular of as

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

  1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection
Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative asse
Genitive ase
Singular Plural
Nominative asse ase
Accusative asev asijt
Genitive ase asij
Illative assáj asijda
Inessive asen asijn
Elative ases asijs
Comitative asijn asij
Abessive asedagá
asedagi		 asijdagá
asijdagi
Essive assen
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person assám assáma assáma
2nd person assát assáda assáda
3rd person asses asseska assesa

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English assa.

Alternative forms

Noun

asse (plural assen or asses)

  1. ass, donkey
Descendants
  • English: ass
  • Yola: ess
References

Verb

asse

  1. Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.[1]

Adjective

asse (comparative assu)

  1. easy

Declension
io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative assae assae assae
Vocative assai
Accusative assae assai
Genitive assai assae assai
Dative assu assai assu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative assai assai
Vocative assai
assu*
Accusative assai
assu*
Genitive assae
Dative assaib
Notes * when substantivized

Derived terms

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
asse unchanged n-asse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sādo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • अस्से (Devanagari script)
  • অস্সে (Bengali script)
  • අස‍්සෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • အဿေ or ဢသ်သေ (Burmese script)
  • อสฺเส or อัสเส (Thai script)
  • ᩋᩔᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ອສ຺ເສ or ອັສເສ (Lao script)
  • អស្សេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

asse

  1. locative singular of assa
  2. accusative plural of assa

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

  1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection
Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative asse
Genitive ase
Singular Plural
Nominative asse ase
Accusative asev isijt
Genitive ase isij
Illative assáj isijda
Inessive asen isijn
Elative asest
ases		 isijst
isijs
Comitative isijn isij
Essive assen

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

asse

  1. inflection of assar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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