meu

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English

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Etymology 1

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Meu

From Latin mēum (umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, lesser) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.[1]

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Noun

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meu (uncountable)

  1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
    Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (meu).

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Noun

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meu (plural meus)

  1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
    Coordinate term: migan

References

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  1. ^ meu, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

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meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

  1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

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Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan meu, from Latin meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

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Pronoun

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meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

  1. my, mine
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  • When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.
    el meu gosmy dog
  • Also used after some prepositions:
    dins meuinside me
    davant meuin front of me
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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

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Interjection

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meu

  1. meow

Noun

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. meow
    Synonym: miol

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Latin mēum.

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Noun

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. baldmoney, spignel

Further reading

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Fala

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, inherited from Latin metus.

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. fear

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

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meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

  1. (possessive) my
    Este é o meu cocheThis is my car
  2. (possessive) mine
    Este coche é meuThis car is mine

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meu

  1. man; dude; pal; bro
    Éche o que hai, meu. Hai que roeloThings are like that, bro. You must face it
    Meu! Fixéchelo!Dude! You did it!

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Ligurian

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos), μόλος (mólos), itself from Latin mōlēs.

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Noun

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meu m (invariable)

  1. jetty, pier, mole
    • 1984, “Sidón”, in Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), Crêuza de mâ [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:
      E dòpp'i færi in gôa, i færi da prixón / e 'nte ferîe a seménsa velenóza da deportaçión / perché de nòstro, da-a cianûa a-o meu / no peu ciù crésce ni èrbo, ni spîga, ni figeu
      And after the iron in the throat, the iron of the prison, and the poisonous seed of deportation inside the wounds, because no tree, or spike, or boy of ours is allowed to grow any longer, from the plain to the pier

Old Catalan

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Etymology

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From Latin meum.

Adjective

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meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

  1. my, mine
    Synonym: mon

Descendants

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  • Catalan: meu

Old French

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Alternative forms

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  • meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

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meu

  1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

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  • (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira, unstressed) IPA(key): [me]
  • Hyphenation: meu
  • Audio (São Paulo):(file)

Determiner

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meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

  1. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
    1. pertaining or belonging to me; my
      o meu computadormy computer
    2. that serves or interests me; my
      o meu carromy car
    3. introduced by me; my
      o herói da minha históriathe hero of my story
    4. merited by me; my
      ainda não recebi o meu dinheiroI still haven't received my money

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Pronoun

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meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

  1. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)

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meu!

  1. (Portugal, Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
  2. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
  3. (Portugal, slang) dude

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

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Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person meu minha meus minhas
Second person teu tua teus tuas
Third person seu sua seus suas
Plural First person nosso nossa nossos nossas
Second person vosso vossa vossos vossas
Third person seu sua seus suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese


Romanian

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Alternative forms

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  • meŭold orthography

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

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Determiner

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meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

  1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

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Pronoun

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meu m or n

  1. (preceded by "al") mine

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Sardinian

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Etymology

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From Latin meus.

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meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

  1. my, mine
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Sassarese

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meu (feminine singular mea, plural mei)

  1. Alternative form of méiu
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Turrendi a bidda mea [Going back to my town]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 89:
      E canti volthi, o bidda mea natiba,
      soggu giuntu a zirchà
      da te li cosi mei chi v’aggiu pessu
      And how many times, o native town of mine, have I come to you looking for the things that I have lost here
    • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nomme fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese[2]:
      Lu méu nascimèntu l’abìa dinunziaddu sóru in municipiu
      She [my mother] declared my birth only at the register office

Pronoun

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meu m (feminine singular mea, masculine and feminine plural mei)

  1. Alternative form of méiu

References

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Zou

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Meu.

Etymology

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Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese (māo).

Noun

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meu

  1. cat (Felis catus)

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65