mese

See also: Mese, mesé, mesè, mèse, Mèse, mēse, mesë, meše, meşe, and meșe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (dinner, dish), from Old English mēse, mēose, mīse, mȳse (table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (table; meal). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (a serving of food), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs). Compare Old English mēsan (to eat, dine), from Proto-Germanic *mōsijaną, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic mat- (food).

Alternative forms

Noun

mese (plural meses)

  1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

References

  • "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

Verb

mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

  1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

Anagrams


Corsican

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

  1. month

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of English messenger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmese/, [ˈme̞s̠e̞]
  • Rhymes: -ese
  • Syllabification(key): me‧se

Noun

mese

  1. (colloquial, dated) MSN Messenger

Declension

Inflection of mese (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative mese meset
genitive mesen mesejen
partitive meseä mesejä
illative meseen meseihin
singular plural
nominative mese meset
accusative nom. mese meset
gen. mesen
genitive mesen mesejen
meseinrare
partitive meseä mesejä
inessive mesessä meseissä
elative mesestä meseistä
illative meseen meseihin
adessive mesellä meseillä
ablative meseltä meseiltä
allative meselle meseille
essive mesenä meseinä
translative meseksi meseiksi
instructive mesein
abessive mesettä meseittä
comitative meseineen
Possessive forms of mese (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person meseni mesemme
2nd person mesesi mesenne
3rd person mesensä

Derived terms

Anagrams


Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mese

  1. mouse

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ, *maćɜ (tale; to tell (tale, story)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛʃɛ]
  • Hyphenation: me‧se
  • Rhymes: -ʃɛ

Noun

mese (plural mesék)

  1. fairy tale, tale, fable
    Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori
  2. (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn
    Synonyms: hazugság, kitaláció, nagyotmondás, koholmány

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mese mesék
accusative mesét meséket
dative mesének meséknek
instrumental mesével mesékkel
causal-final meséért mesékért
translative mesévé mesékké
terminative meséig mesékig
essive-formal meseként mesékként
essive-modal
inessive mesében mesékben
superessive mesén meséken
adessive mesénél meséknél
illative mesébe mesékbe
sublative mesére mesékre
allative meséhez mesékhez
elative meséből mesékből
delative meséről mesékről
ablative mesétől meséktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
meséé meséké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
mesééi mesékéi
Possessive forms of mese
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mesém meséim
2nd person sing. meséd meséid
3rd person sing. meséje meséi
1st person plural mesénk meséink
2nd person plural mesétek meséitek
3rd person plural meséjük meséik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

References

  1. Entry #1800 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  2. mese in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • mese in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mēnsem (month), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (moon, month). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.ze/, (traditional) /ˈme.se/[1]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
  • Hyphenation: mé‧se

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

  1. month

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. mese in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

mesē

  1. ablative/vocative singular of mesēs

References

  • mese”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mese”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old French

Noun

mese f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)

  1. Alternative form of messe

Pohnpeian

Noun

mese

  1. face, facade
  2. upper part of a yam, taro, pineapple, etc.
  3. the edge of a reef

Romanian

Noun

mese f pl

  1. plural of masă

Spanish

Verb

mese

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