mes
English
Noun
mes
- plural of me
- If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?
Anagrams
- EMS, EMs, Ems, MSE, SEM, SME, Sem, ems, sem
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛs/
Audio (file)
Noun
mes (plural messe)
- knife
Derived terms
- knipmes
- slagmes
Descendants
- → Zulu: umese
- Fanagalo: mes (or directly)
Albanian
Alternative forms
- midis
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *meTi, *meTśi-, from Proto-Indo-European *me-t/dhi (“with, middle”), ultimately from *medʰyo-. Cognate to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸 (miþ, “with”). It might represent a devoiced variant of mez. A loan from Modern Greek μέσος (mésos, “in the middle”) is not excluded.
Noun
mes m (indefinite plural mese, definite singular mesi, definite plural meset)
- middle
Declension
| indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) | definite forms (trajta të shquara) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | ||
| nominative (emërore) | (një) mes | (disa) mese | mesi | meset | |
| accusative (kallëzore) | (një) mes | (disa) mese | mesin | meset | |
| genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) | (një) mesi | (disa) meseve | mesit | mesevet | |
| dative (dhanore) | (një) mesi | (disa) meseve | mesit | mesevet | |
| ablative (rrjedhore) (prej) | (një) mesi | (disa) mesesh | mesit | mesevet | |
Derived terms
- mesditë
- mesnatë
See also
- midis
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin mensis.
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- month
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mes”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin mensis.
Noun
mes m (plural mesh)
- month
Synonyms
- (month): lunã
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin mensis.
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- month
Atong (India)
Etymology
Cognate with Garo mes. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
mes
- sheep
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmes/
- Homophone: més
- Rhymes: -es
Etymology 1
From Old Catalan mes, from Latin mēnsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Occitan mes, French mois, Spanish mes.
Noun
mes m (plural mesos)
- month
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mes del calendari gregorià; gener, febrer, març, abril, maig, juny, juliol, agost, setembre, octubre, novembre, desembre (Category: ca:Months)
Etymology 2
Latin missus, past participle of mittere.
Verb
mes
- past participle of metre
Etymology 3
From Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās.
Determiner
mes
- feminine plural of mon
References
- “mes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “mes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mes
- Rhymes: -ɛs
- Homophone: Mesch
Noun
mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)
- knife, cleaver
- (informal) blade
Derived terms
- afbreekmes
- botermes
- broodmes
- hakmes
- kaasmes
- kapmes
- knipmes
- messenslijper
- messentrekker
- oestermes
- paletmes
- schildersmes
- slagersmes
- snoeimes
- springmes
- stanleymes
- steekmes
- vilmes
- vleesmes
- vlindermes
- vouwmes
- werpmes
- zakmes
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mes
- → Zulu: umese
- Fanagalo: mes (or directly)
- → Zulu: umese
- Berbice Creole Dutch: mesi
- Jersey Dutch: määs
- Negerhollands: mes
- Skepi Creole Dutch: masa
- → Indonesian: mes (“medical knife”)
- → Japanese: メス (mesu, “medical knife”)
- → Korean: 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”)
- → Loup A: meschu (from the diminutive form)
- → Malagasy: méso, mésa
French
Etymology
From Old French mes, from Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ/, (in liaison) /mɛ.z‿/
- IPA(key): /me/, (in liaison) /me.z‿/
audio (file)
Determiner
mes pl
- my (when referring to a plural noun)
- Mes clés sont dans ma poche.
- My keys are in my pocket.
Related terms
| Possessee | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||||
| Masculine | Feminine | |||||
| Possessor | Singular | First person | mon1 | ma | mes | |
| Second person | ton1 | ta | tes | |||
| Third person | son1 | sa | ses | |||
| Plural | First person | notre | nos | |||
| Second person | votre2 | vos2 | ||||
| Third person | leur | leurs | ||||
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
Descendants
- Louisiana Creole French: mê
Further reading
- “mes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmes/
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- month
References
- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mes” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mes” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Garo
Noun
mes
- lamb
Gothic
Romanization
mes
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛs]
- Hyphenation: mès
Etymology 1
From Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- mess (hall)
Etymology 2
From English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (engineering) mesh, structure or opening.
Etymology 3
From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (colloquial) artificial fertilizer.
Etymology 4
From Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (surgery, colloquial) scalpel, blade, medical knife.
- Kemudian tampak fasia, diinsisi dengan memberikan mes no 22 dan dijepit dengan memberikan pinset cirurgis. ― Fascia appeared, incised with 22 blade and clamped with surgical forceps.
- Berikan mes no 15 dan pinset chirurgi pada operator untuk insisi kulit sampai fasia. ― Give the blade 15 and surgical forceps to the operator for skin incision to the fascia.
- Synonyms: bisturi, pisau bedah, pisau operasi, skalpel
Further reading
- “mes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Kalasha
Noun
mes
- table
Ladino
Alternative forms
- mez
Noun
mes m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מיס)
- month
Latgalian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmʲæs]
- Hyphenation: mes
Pronoun
mes
- we
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | es | mes |
| genitive | mane, mani | myusu |
| dative | maņ | mums |
| accusative | mani | myus |
| locative | manī | myusūs |
See also
| first | second | third (a.) | third (l.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | f | m | f | |||
| singular | es | tu | jis | jei | šys | šei |
| plural | mes | jius | jī | juos | šī | šuos |
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35
Latvian
Pronoun
mes (personal, 1st person plural)
- (dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *my; akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ). This form in m replaced Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”), probably after the 1st person plural verbal suffix -me. At the East-Baltic stage, the oblique forms were rebuilt by analogy with jūs. Compare the Old Prussian oblique forms nūsan, nūmans, and Old Church Slavonic насъ, намъ (nasŭ, namŭ), from *n̥s-, nos-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲæːs/
Pronoun
mẽs
- we (first-person plural pronoun)
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | àš | mùdu m, mùdvi f | mẽs | ||
| genitive | manę̃s | mùdviejų | mū́sų | ||
| dative | mán | mùdviem | mùms | ||
| accusative | manè | mùdu m, mùdvi f | mùs | ||
| instrumental | manimì, manim̃ | mùdviem | mumìs | ||
| locative | manyjè, manỹ | mùdviese | mumysè |
See also
| singular (vienaskaita) | dual (dviskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | reflexive (sangrąžiniai) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person (pirmasis asmuo) | 2nd person (antrasis asmuo) | 3rd person (trečiasis asmuo) | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||||||||||
| m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | ||||||||||
| nominative (vardininkas) | àš | tù | jìs, jisaĩ | jì, jinaĩ | mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu, jiẽdu | jiẽdvi | mẽs | jū̃s | jiẽ | jõs | - | ||||
| genitive (kilmininkas) | manę̃s | tavę̃s | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | savę̃s | ||||||||
| dative (naudininkas) | mán | táu | jám | jái | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mùms | jùms | jíems | jóms | sáu | |||||||
| accusative (galininkas) | manè | tavè | jį̃ | ją̃ | mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu | jiẽdvi | mùs | jùs | juõs | jàs | savè | ||||
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | manimì, manim̃ | tavimì, tavim̃ | juõ | jà | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mumìs | jumìs | jaĩs | jomìs | savimì, savim̃ | |||||||
| locative (vietininkas) | manyjè, manỹ | tavyjè, tavỹ | jamè | jojè | mùdviese | jùdviese | jiẽdviese | mumysè | jumysè | juosè | josè | savyjè, savỹ | |||||||
| possessive (savybiniai) | màno | tàvo | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | sàvo | ||||||||
Lombard
Alternative forms
- mis (Bergamasque)
Etymology
From Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mez/
Noun
mes m (Milanese)
- month
Further reading
- https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/mes
Occitan
Etymology 1
From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- month
Verb
mes
- past participle of metre
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin magis.
Alternative forms
- mais
Conjunction
mes
- but
Descendants
- French: mais
Etymology 2
From Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.
Determiner
mes m pl or f pl
- my (first-person plural possessive)
Descendants
- French: mes
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.
Noun
mes m (oblique plural mes, nominative singular mes, nominative plural mes)
- month
Descendants
- Occitan: mes
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mensis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 713
Old Prussian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wéy, with the initial m- appearing due to influence from the first-person verbal suffix and the first-person singular object pronoun. Cognate with Latvian mēs, Lithuanian mẽs, Proto-Slavic *my, Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ).
Pronoun
mes
- we, the first person plural pronoun
Portuguese
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- Obsolete spelling of mês
Rohingya
Alternative forms
- 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢 (mes) – Hanifi Rohingya script
Etymology
From Persian [Term?].
Noun
mes (Hanifi spelling 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢)
- table
Romansch
Adjective
mes m (feminine mia)
- (possessive) my
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin mensis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmes/ [ˈmes]
- (Peruvian)
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: mes
- (Peruvian)
- IPA(key): (Murcia, Eastern Andalusia) [mɛː]
Noun
mes m (plural meses)
- month
- Mi mes favorito es enero.
- My favourite month is January.
Derived terms
- llegar a fin de mes
Related terms
- mensual
- mensualidad
- semestre
- sietemesino
- trimestre
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mes del calendario gregoriano; enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre (Category: es:Months)
Further reading
- “mes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sumerian
Romanization
mes
- Romanization of 𒈩 (mes)
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːs/
Noun
mes c
- a tit (genus Parus), a small bird
- the metal frame of a backpack
- (colloquial, derogatory) a wimp
Declension
| Declension of mes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | mes | mesen | mesar | mesarna |
| Genitive | mes | mesens | mesars | mesarnas |
Related terms
- blåmes
- mesig (“wimpy”)
- stjärtmes
Further reading
- mes in Svensk ordbok.
- mes in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
Zoogocho Zapotec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
mes
- table
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38) (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255