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English

Alternative forms

• es

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s, IPA^(key): /?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

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
• de-ess

Translations

Usage notes

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

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

Verb

ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)

1. To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.

Hypernyms

• wind

Translations

Anagrams

• -ses, SES, SEs, SSE

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German esche, asche, from Old High German asc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”). Cognate with German Esche, English ash.

Noun

ess m (plural ésse)

1. (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)

Declension

References

• “ess” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Estonian

Noun

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

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

Faroese

Etymology 1

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

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

Declension

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

Etymology 2

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (card games) ace

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (music) E-flat

Declension

German

Verb

ess

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
2. (colloquial) singular imperative of essen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]
• Hyphenation: ess
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

esik +? -j

Alternative forms

• essél

Verb

ess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Etymology 2

Noun

ess

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

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• ess in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

Noun

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

2. (card games) an ace
3. (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete

Usage notes

• Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Ess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

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

2. (music) E-flat

References

• “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• -ess, ses

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

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

Anagrams

• ses

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.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English asse, from Old English assa.

Noun

ess

1. ass (donkey)

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

eas

1. plural of ea

Anagrams

• -ase, AES, ASE, ESA, Esa, SAE, SEA, Sea, a**es, aes, ase, esa, sea

Estonian

Noun

eas

1. inessive singular of iga

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish es(s) (“cataract, rapid, rapidly flowing stream”).

Noun

eas m (genitive singular easa, nominative plural easanna)

1. waterfall, cascade, rapid

Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish es (“stoat, weasel”), from Old Irish nes(s).

Noun

eas f (genitive singular easa, nominative plural easa)

1. stoat, weasel

Declension

Derived terms

• easóg

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 es(s) ‘cataract, rapid’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “5 es ‘stoat, weasel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 nes(s) ‘weasel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "eas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.a?s/, [?eä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.as/, [????s]

Verb

e?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of e?

Pronoun

e?s

1. accusative feminine plural of is

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish es, ess (“cataract, rapid, rapidly flowing stream”).

Noun

eas m (genitive singular easa, plural easan)

1. waterfall, cascade, falls

Mutation