mesme
Interlingua
Adjective
mesme
- same
- self
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French mesme.
Adjective
mesme m or f (plural mesmes)
- (the) same
Adverb
mesme
- even
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
- Et de ces viles ames de bouffons il s'en est trouvé qui n'ont voulu abandonner leur gaudisserie en la mort mesme
- And of these vile idiots there are even some who didn't want to give up their luxuries, even for death
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Descendants
- French: même (see there for further descendants)
Norman
Alternative forms
- même (Jersey, continental Normandy)
Etymology
From Old French meïsme, mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).
Adjective
mesme m or f
- (Guernsey) same
Old French
Alternative forms
- meïsme (chiefly 11th and 12th centuries)
- medesme (11th century)
- medisme (11th century)
Etymology
Simplification of early Old French meïsme < Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).
Adjective
mesme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mesme)
- (the) same
- used for emphasis
- toi mesme
- you
Descendants
- Bourguignon: moîme
- Gallo: méme
- Middle French: mesme (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: meîme (continental Normandy, Jersey), mesme (Guernsey)
- Picard: minme
- Walloon: minme