mese
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”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”). 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
Noun
mese (plural meses)
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)
Etymology 3
Unadapted borrowing from Latin mesē, from Ancient Greek μέση (mésē, literally “middle [string]”).
Noun
mese (plural meses)
- (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.
Usage notes
- The strings/pitches from lowest-pitched (nearest the player) to highest-pitched (farthest from the player) were the hypate, parhypate, lichanos, mese, paramese, trite, paranete and nete, grouped into two tetrachords, the nearer one stretching from hypate to mese and the farther one stretching from paramese to nete. The outer two notes in a tetrachord were fixed in pitch but the inner two notes could be tuned differently.
Anagrams
Corsican
Noun
mese m (plural mesi)
Finnish
Etymology
Clipping of English messenger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmese/, [ˈme̞s̠e̞]
- Rhymes: -ese
- Syllabification(key): me‧se
- Hyphenation(key): me‧se
Noun
mese (colloquial, dated)
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 mesein rare | |
| 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 | |
| abessive | mesettä | meseittä | |
| instructive | — | mesein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Anagrams
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mese
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ, *maćɜ (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛʃɛ]
- Hyphenation: me‧se
- Rhymes: -ʃɛ
Noun
mese (plural mesék)
- fairy tale, tale, fable
- Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori
- (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn
Declension
| 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 |
| 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
- meseautó
- mesebeszéd
- mesedélután
- mesedráma
- mesefa
- mesefilm
- mesegyűjtemény
- mesehős
- meseirodalom
- meseíró
- mesejáték
- mesekönyv
- mesemondás, mesemondó
- meseopera
- meseország
- meseregény
- meseszép
- meseszövés, meseszövő
- mesetípus
- mesevilág
- állatmese
- csalimese
- dajkamese
- gólyamese
- gyerekmese, gyermekmese
- láncmese
- legendamese
- műmese
- népmese
- rémmese
- sárkánymese
- tanmese
- tündérmese
- vándormese
- esti mese
- mese habbal
- nincs mese
References
- ^ Entry #1800 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ mese in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- mese in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin mēnsem (“month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme.ze/, (traditional) /ˈme.se/[1]
un mese: (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
- Hyphenation: mé‧se
- (Romanesco) IPA(key): /ˈmese/
Noun
mese m (plural mesi)
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ mese in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
mesē
- ablative/vocative singular of mesēs
References
- “mese”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mese”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English mēos (“moss”). Related to mos, from Old English mos.
Noun
mese
Alternative forms
Old English
Noun
mēse f
- alternative form of mȳse
Old French
Noun
mese oblique singular, f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)
- alternative form of messe
Pohnpeian
Noun
mese
Romanian
Noun
mese f pl
- plural of masă
Spanish
Verb
mese
- inflection of mesar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative