mene
See also: mène, meñe, mené, méně, měně, and мене
English
Noun
mene (plural menes)
- The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
- 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:
- He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
- 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:
- The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
- 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:
- The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.
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Anagrams
- -neme, em- -en, neem
Angguruk Yali
Noun
mene
- dog
References
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin manus.
Noun
mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)
- Alternative form of mãnã
Cheyenne
Noun
mene
- berry, small fruit
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]
Verb
mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)
- to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
- Hvad mener du med det?
- What do you mean by that?
- Hvad mener du med det?
- to think, hold, consider
Inflection
Inflection of mene
| present | past | |
|---|---|---|
| simple | mener | mente |
| perfect | har ment | havde ment |
| passive | menes | mentes |
| participle | menende | ment |
| imperative | men | — |
| infinitive | mene | — |
| auxiliary verb | have | — |
| gerund | menen | — |
See also
- betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːnə
Verb
mene
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of menen
Anagrams
- meen, neem, neme
Finnish
Verb
mene
- present active indicative connegative of mennä
- second-person singular present imperative of mennä
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative of mennä
Lithuanian
Noun
mene m
- locative singular of menas
- vocative singular of menas
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmen(ə)/
Pronoun
méne
- me (after preposition)
Coordinate terms
| Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | first-person | io (i') | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne | ||
| second-person, familiar | tu | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne | |||
| second-person, formal | vuje | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje | |||
| third-person, masculine | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso | |
| third-person, feminine | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | éssa | |||
| plural | first-person | nuje | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje | ||
| second-person, plural | vuje | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje | |||
| third-person, masculine | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro | |
| third-person, feminine | llòro | 'e (le) | |||||
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- meine (Nynorsk also)
Etymology
From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.
Verb
mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)
- to mean
- to think
References
- “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old English
Alternative forms
- myne
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme.ne/
Noun
mene m
- necklace, collar
- ornament, jewel
Declension
Declension of mene (strong ja-stem)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mene | menas |
| accusative | mene | menas |
| genitive | menes | mena |
| dative | mene | menum |
Related terms
- manu
Descendants
- Middle English: myne, mune
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.ni/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈme.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.n(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Noun
mene m (plural menes)
- (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mêne/
- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Pronoun
mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)
- of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
- me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
Declension
Declension of mene
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | jȃ | mȋ |
| genitive | mȅne, me | nȃs |
| dative | mȅni, mi | nȁma, nam |
| accusative | mȅne, me | nȃs |
| vocative | — | mȋ |
| locative | mȅni | nȁma |
| instrumental | mnȏm, mnóme | nȁma |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mene
- inflection of mena:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmene]
Noun
mene f
- dative/locative singular of mena
Noun
mene n
- locative singular of meno
Spanish
Verb
mene
- inflection of menar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
West Makian
Etymology
From me (3rd singular pronoun) + ne (“this”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ˈn̪e/
Determiner
mene
- (proximal, emphatic) this, these
- niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana
- Synonyms: ne, nema
- Antonym: mema
Pronoun
mene
- (proximal) this, these
- mene de ti pala ― this is my house
- Antonym: mema
Alternative forms
- mine
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics (as mené)