mega
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the prefix mega-, from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mega (not comparable)
- (informal) Very large.
- 2004, Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design, page 26:
- Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
- (slang) Great; excellent.
- 1998, John Barwick, Targeting Text, page 25:
- We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.
- 2011, Anna Wilson, Pup Idol: Top of the Pups:
- It was totally mega. The audience clapped and cheered when Teasel had finally finished. So did I.
- July 15, 2011, Liam Gallagher, quoted at the launch of the new Manchester City F.C. kit
- I've been a City fan since I was a kid, so to be involved with the launch of a new kit is colossal. Manchester City fans are known for having a lot of style and the new shirt looks mega.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mega (comparative more mega, superlative most mega)
Noun
[edit]mega (plural megas)
- (birding, informal) A megararity (extremely rare bird for a certain region).
- 2017 June, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 2:
- And, speaking of relative banalities, the recurring Semipalmated Plover at the Broom Sewage Works may have inured us slightly to the status of the species as a rare vagrant, but it was an undeniable "mega" when one was discovered on Lord Howe Island on 23 March.
- (mathematics) The Steinhaus-Moser number ②
Coordinate terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Alemannic German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mega
- (colloquial) very
- S Auto isch uu mega schnäll verbiigraast.
- The car drove by very quickly.
Usage notes
[edit]- Sometimes preceded by the intensifier uu. The other order *“mega uu” is not grammatical.
Synonyms
[edit]Balinese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]mega
- Romanization of ᬫᬾᬖ.
Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega f (plural megues)
- Clipping of megabyte.
Czech
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega n
Declension
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
Adverb
[edit]mega
Esperanto
[edit]1,000,000a | ||
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Cardinal : meg Ordinal : mega | ||
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mega (accusative singular megan, plural megaj, accusative plural megajn)
- (neologism, rare, ordinal number) millionth
- Synonym: miliona
Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse mega, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mega
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of mega (muga) (irregular) | ||
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infinitive | mega (muga) | |
supine | – | |
participle | – | – |
present | past | |
first singular | má | mátti |
second singular | mást | mátti |
third singular | má | mátti |
plural | mugu/mega | máttu |
imperative | ||
singular | – | |
plural | – |
References
[edit]- Jóhan Hendrik W. Poulsen, et al.: Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag 1998. (“mega”)
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega (colloquial)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of mega (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mega | megat | |
genitive | megan | megojen | |
partitive | megaa | megoja | |
illative | megaan | megoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mega | megat | |
accusative | nom. | mega | megat |
gen. | megan | ||
genitive | megan | megojen megain rare | |
partitive | megaa | megoja | |
inessive | megassa | megoissa | |
elative | megasta | megoista | |
illative | megaan | megoihin | |
adessive | megalla | megoilla | |
ablative | megalta | megoilta | |
allative | megalle | megoille | |
essive | megana | megoina | |
translative | megaksi | megoiksi | |
abessive | megatta | megoitta | |
instructive | — | megoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the prefix mega-.
Adverb
[edit]mega
- (colloquial, somewhat childish) very, super
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sehr
- Das ist megaeinfach. ― It’s super easy.
- Er freute sich mega. ― He was super happy.
Usage notes
[edit]Often written together with the next word, as if compounding a new word, or analyzed as prefix.
Adjective
[edit]mega (strong nominative masculine singular megaer, not comparable)
- (slang, chiefly predicative) awesome, amazing
- Die Party gestern war mega. ― That party last night was awesome.
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse mega, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mega (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative má, third-person singular past indicative mátti, supine mátt)
- (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to be allowed, to be permitted, to may
- Synonym: hafa leyfi til
- Þú mátt þetta ekki. ― You're not allowed to do that.
- Hvað má bjóða ykkur að borða? ― What may offer you to eat?
- (intransitive) must, to have to
- Synonym: verða
- to have the strength, to be able
- Synonym: megna
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að mega | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
mátt | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
megandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég má | við megum | present (nútíð) |
ég megi | við megum |
þú mátt | þið megið | þú megir | þið megið | ||
hann, hún, það má | þeir, þær, þau mega | hann, hún, það megi | þeir, þær, þau megi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég mátti | við máttum | past (þátíð) |
ég mætti | við mættum |
þú máttir | þið máttuð | þú mættir | þið mættuð | ||
hann, hún, það mátti | þeir, þær, þau máttu | hann, hún, það mætti | þeir, þær, þau mættu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
- | - | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
- | - | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
Derived terms
[edit]- eins og nærri má geta
- má vera
- mega betur (“to have the upper hand”)
- mega ekki
- mega ekki hugsa til
- mega ekki vamm sitt vita (“to be concerned about one's reputation”)
- mega lengi lifa
- mega sín ekki við (“to not manage something”)
- mega sín mikils
- mega sín mikils (“have a lot of influence, to be powerful”)
- mega til (“to must, to have to”)
- mega vera að
- mega vera að (“to have the time to do”)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay mega, from Javanese mega, from Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega or mèga
Further reading
[edit]- “mega” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /meɡə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /meɡa/
- Rhymes: -eɡə, -ɡə, -ə
Noun
[edit]mega (Jawi spelling ميݢ, plural mega-mega, informal 1st possessive megaku, 2nd possessive megamu, 3rd possessive meganya)
- cloud (visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air)
Further reading
[edit]- “mega” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *meganą, *maganą.
Verb
[edit]mega
- to be able to
- ek vætr hánum / vinna máttak.
- I was not at all able to struggle against him.
- must, may
- ok má at hans menn fari á land,
- and it may be that his men are coming ashore
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | mega | |
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present participle | megandi | |
past participle | megat, mátt | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | má | mátta |
2nd-person singular | mátt | máttir |
3rd-person singular | má | mátti |
1st-person plural | megum | máttum |
2nd-person plural | meguð | máttuð |
3rd-person plural | megu | máttu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | mega | mætta |
2nd-person singular | megir | mættir |
3rd-person singular | megi | mætti |
1st-person plural | megim | mættim |
2nd-person plural | megið | mættið |
3rd-person plural | megi | mætti |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | meg | |
1st-person plural | megum | |
2nd-person plural | meguð |
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: mega
- Faroese: mega
- Norwegian Nynorsk: moga; (dialectal) mågå, måga, mòge
- Old Swedish: magha, mugha, mogha
- Swedish: må
- ⇒ Old Norse: mátti
- ⇒ Old Norse: má
References
[edit]- “mega”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mega (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
- (colloquial) awesome, great, cool
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry
Adverb
[edit]mega (not comparable)
- (colloquial) awesome, great, cool
Further reading
[edit]- mega in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: me‧ga
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).
Adverb
[edit]mega
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega m (plural megas or mega)
- Clipping of megabyte.
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega m (plural megas)
- (colloquial) Clipping of mega hair.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]mega f (plural megas)
- Clipping of megabyte.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mega f
Further reading
[edit]- “mega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sundanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]mega
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- Rhymes:English/ɛɡə
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