mese

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”).

• mease

mese (plural meses)

1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

• "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

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

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Clipping of English messenger.

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

mese (colloquial, dated)

1. MSN Messenger

• mesettää

• Seem

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mese

1. mouse

From Proto-Ugric *mańćɜ, *maćɜ (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛʃɛ]
• Hyphenation: me‧se
• Rhymes: -ʃɛ

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

• mese in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Latin mēnsem (“month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.ze/, (traditional) /ˈme.se/^[1]

• un mese:

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

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

• mensile
• mensilmente
• mensilità

• Category:it:Months
• settimana
• anno

• seme

mesē

1. ablative/vocative singular of mesēs

• “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

From Old English mēos (“moss”). Related to mos, from Old English mos.

mese

1. moss

• messe, mes, mease, meose

mēse f

1. Alternative form of mȳse

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

1. Alternative form of messe

mese

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

mese f pl

1. plural of masă

mese

1. inflection of mesar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative