ess

ess

See also: Ess, ESS, -ess, ess-, and ëss

English

Alternative forms

Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕs, IPA^(key): /ɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

ess (plural esses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.
2. Something shaped like the letter S.

Derived terms

• collar of esses

Translations

name of the letter S, s

Arabic: إِس‎ m (ʾis) Catalan: essa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists) Esperanto: so (eo) Faroese: ess n Finnish: äs (fi) French: esse (fr) m Galician: ese (gl) m Greek: ες (el) n (es) Hawaiian: sā Hindi: एस (es) Ido: se (io) Irish: eas (ga), sail (ga) f

Japanese: エス (esu) Korean: 에스 (eseu) Latin: es (la) Malay: es Marathi: एस (esa) Norwegian: Bokmål: ess (no) m Nynorsk: ess m Portuguese: esse (pt) m Russian: эс (ru) n (es) Spanish: ese (es) f Thai: เอส (th) (ées) Turkish: se (tr) Vietnamese: ét (vi), sờ (vi), xờ mạnh, xờ nặng

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Translations to be checked

Italian: (please verify) esse (it) m or f

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Anagrams

• -ses, SES, SEs, SSE

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Estonian

Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

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Faroese

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Declension

n11	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
Genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (card games) ace

Declension

n11	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
Genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (music) E-flat

Declension

n11	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
Dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
Genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

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German

Verb

ess

1. (colloquial) First-person singular present of essen.
2. (colloquial) Imperative singular of essen.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛsː/
• Rhymes: -ɛsː

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.
2. (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
3. (poetic) horse

Declension

declension of ess

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ess	essið	ess	essin
accusative	ess	essið	ess	essin
dative	essi	essinu	essum	essunum
genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

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Norwegian Bokmål

Spar ess (ace of spades)

Etymology

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es

Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)

1. an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)

References

• “ess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es

Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)
ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)

1. an ace (as above)

References

• “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Irish

Noun

ess

1. Alternative form of es (“cataract, rapid”) m
2. Alternative form of es (“vessel”) n
3. Alternative form of es (“death”)
4. Alternative form of es (“ox”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ess	unchanged	n-ess
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• äss (meanings 1 and 2 below)

Pronunciation

• Homophone: S

Noun

ess n

1. ace; a card with one mark
2. ace; someone very proficient
3. (music) E-flat

Declension

Declension of ess
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ess	esset	ess	essen
Genitive	ess	essets	ess	essens

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Võro

Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Yola

Noun

ess

1. ass (donkey)

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)