més-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"

French

Alternative forms

• mé-
• mes- (obsolete, the form without the acute disappeared in the 18th century)

Etymology

From Middle French mes-, from Old French mes- (“badly, wrongly”), from Frankish *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“divergent, amiss, astay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Akin to Old English mis- (“mis-”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰- (missa-), Old High German missa- (“mis-”). More at mis-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/, /mez/

Prefix

més-

1. mis- (badly, wrongly)

   mésestimer

   méfaire

Derived terms

French terms prefixed with més-