ese

See also: Ese, ESE, Eşe, ése, -ese, esė, and êse

English

Etymology 1

From Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛˌseɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛseɪ
• Homophone: essay

Noun

ese (plural eses)

1. (US) dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).

Etymology 2

Cf. ease.

Noun

ese (plural eses)

1. (obsolete) Ease; pleasure.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 ese in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• SEE, See, ees, see

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺e/, [e̞.s̺e̞]

Noun

ese inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Declension

Declension of ese (inanimate, ending in vowel)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	ese	esea	eseak
ergative	esek	eseak	eseek
dative	eseri	eseari	eseei
genitive	eseren	esearen	eseen
comitative	eserekin	esearekin	eseekin
causative	eserengatik	esearengatik	eseengatik
benefactive	eserentzat	esearentzat	eseentzat
instrumental	esez	eseaz	eseez
inessive	esetan	esean	eseetan
locative	esetako	eseko	eseetako
allative	esetara	esera	eseetara
terminative	esetaraino	eseraino	eseetaraino
directive	esetarantz	eserantz	eseetarantz
destinative	esetarako	eserako	eseetarako
ablative	esetatik	esetik	eseetatik
partitive	eserik	—	—
prolative	esetzat	—	—

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

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Chuukese

Etymology

e- +‎ -se

Pronoun

ese

1. he, she, it does not

Adjective

ese

1. he, she, it is not
2. he, she, it was not

Related terms

		Present and past tense	Negative tense	Future	Negative future	Distant future	Negative determinate
Singular	First person	ua	use	upwe	usap	upwap	ute
	Second person	ka, ke	kose, kese	kopwe, kepwe	kosap, kesap	kopwap, kepwap	kote, kete
	Third person	a	ese	epwe	esap	epwap	ete
Plural	First person	aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive)	ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive)	aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive)	ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive)	aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive)	aute (exclusive) site (inclusive)
	Second person	oua	ouse	oupwe	ousap	oupwap	oute
	Third person	ra, re	rese	repwe	resap	repwap	rete

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Estonian

Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century, but compare Finnish esine.

Noun

ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item

Declension

Inflection of ese (ÕS type 4/ase, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	ese	esemed
accusative	eseme	esemed
genitive	eseme	esemete
partitive	eset	esemeid
illative	esemesse	esemetesse esemeisse
inessive	esemes	esemetes esemeis
elative	esemest	esemetest esemeist
allative	esemele	esemetele esemeile
adessive	esemel	esemetel esemeil
ablative	esemelt	esemetelt esemeilt
translative	esemeks	esemeteks esemeiks
terminative	esemeni	esemeteni
essive	esemena	esemetena
abessive	esemeta	esemeteta
comitative	esemega	esemetega

See also

• asi
• objekt

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈesɪ/

Determiner

ese m (feminine singular esa, masculine plural eses, feminine plural esas, neuter iso)

1. that

Further reading

• “ese” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Karitiâna

Noun

ese

1. water

References

• Number and the mass/count distinction in Karitiana

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Latin

Participle

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French aise, eise.

Alternative forms

• eyse, eise, ase, ayse, aise, yese

Noun

ese

1. Physical comfort, or that which is conducive thereto.
2. Material prosperity; profit.
3. Good health.
4. Spiritual comfort; equanimity, tranquility.
   • 1370-90, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
     It is in cloistre or in scole.

5. Enjoyment, pleasure, delight.
6. Ease, facility.
7. The opportunity by which something is possible; means, ability.
   • c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎^[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 78, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:

     […] hƿen þe delit i þe luſt iſ igan ſe ouerforð · þet ter nere nan ƿiðſeggunge ȝef þer ƿere eiſe to fulle þe dede ·

     […] when the delight taken in the craving has gone so far that there will be no denying it if there's any way whatsoever to do it.

8. The mitigation or alleviation of discomfort, burden or suffering.
9. (law) The right to utilize the property of a neighbour for certain ends; easement.

Synonyms

• (comfort): esynesse
• (ease): facilite

Descendants

• English: ease

References

• “ese, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 August 2018.

Etymology 2

Adjective

ese

1. Alternative form of eise

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Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /isi/ or IPA^(key): /iʃi/

Noun

ese

1. light brown-gray

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• esa (a-infinitive)
• (non-standard since 2012) æsa, æse

Etymology

From Germanic, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *yes- (“to well, seethe, foam, ferment”). Compare Icelandic æsa, from Proto-Germanic *jōsijaną.

Verb

ese (present tense esar, past tense esa, past participle esa, passive infinitive esast, present participle esande, imperative ese/es)

1. (intransitive) to swell, seethe, ferment
2. (intransitive, by extension) to grow larger
3. (impersonal) to devolve, be stirred, riled up

   Synonym: ulme

Derived terms

• (with particle): ese opp; ese ut

Related terms

• ase
• jest, jester

References

• “ese” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Pohnpeian

Verb

ese

1. (transitive) to know

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈese/ [ˈe.se]

• Audio (Spain)

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• Rhymes: -ese
• Hyphenation: e‧se

Etymology 1

Noun

ese f (plural eses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Etymology 2

From Latin ipse.

Determiner

ese m sg (plural esos, feminine esa, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) that

   Synonym: (poetic or archaic) aquese

Interjection

ese

1. (Mexico, informal) hello

Pronoun

ese m (feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése

Usage notes

• The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masculine2		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		feminine		nosotras			nosotras
		neuter		nosotres8			nosotres8
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal3		usted	le, se4	lo/la5	usted
	plural	familiar6	masculine2	vosotros	os		vosotros
			feminine	vosotras			vosotras
			neuter	vosotres8			vosotres8
		formal/general3		ustedes	les, se4	los/las5	ustedes
third person	singular	masculine2		él	le, se4	lo	él
		feminine		ella		la	ella
		neuter		ello7, elle8		lo/la5	ello, elle8
	plural	masculine2		ellos	les, se4	los	ellos
		feminine		ellas		las	ellas
		neuter		elles8		les8	elles8
	reflexive			—	se		sí1

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances
8. Neologism

Further reading

• “ese”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Yoruba

Esé

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ē.sé/

Noun

esé

1. (rare) hippopotamus

   Synonym: erinmi

Etymology 2

Èse ọ̀sìn

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /è.sē/

Noun

èse

1. (rare) cat

   Synonyms: ológbò, ológìní, músù

   irọ́ ni, ẹ̀yìn èse kì í kanlẹ̀ ― It is impossible, a cat can never land on its back

Etymology 3

From è- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ sè (“To dye, to paint”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

Noun

èsè

1. purple dye, purple paint

   ó sè é ní èsè ― She dyed it purple

Derived terms

• elésè-àlùkò (“purple”)
• èsè-àtúfà (“Pergularia daemia”)

 

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

Noun

èsè

1. provision

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ē.sè/

Noun

esè

1. shea butter

   Synonym: òrí

Etymology 6

Èsè rèé nọ́bù

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

Noun

èsè

1. (Ijebu) yellow yam, dioscorea cayenensis

   Synonym: àgọ́ndọ̀n-ọ́n (Ijebu)

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

Noun

èsè

1. (Ijebu) yellow