mese

See also: Mese, mesé, mēse, mesë, meşe, and meše

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”), probably from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”). 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

• mease

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

• Esme, Esmé, emes, seem, seme, semé, smee

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Corsican

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

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Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mese

1. (slang) 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

Anagrams

• Seem

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Garo

Etymology

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Noun

mese

1. mouse

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ, *maćɜ (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).

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

• mesebeli
• mesél
• mesés

 

Compound words

• mesekönyv
• meseország
• meseszép
• népmese
• tündérmese

 

Expressions

• esti mese
• mese habbal
• nincs mese

 

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

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mēnsis, 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/

• un mese

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• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
• Hyphenation: mé‧se

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Derived terms

• mensile
• mensilmente
• mensilità

See also

• Category:it:Months
• settimana
• anno

Anagrams

• seme

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Latin

Noun

mesē

1. ablative/vocative singular of mesēs

References

• “mese”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “mese”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of messe

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Pohnpeian

Noun

mese

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

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Romanian

Noun

mese f pl

1. plural of masă

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Spanish

Verb

mese

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mesar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mesar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mesar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mesar.