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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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lz/

Noun

els

1. plural of el

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ls/

Adjective

els (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of else.
   • c. 1691, John Audrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire

     We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

Anagrams

• -les-, ESL, LES, LSE, Les, L?Es, SLE, les

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illos (“those ones”). Akin to Spanish ellos and Portuguese eles.

Pronoun

els

1. they (third-person plural masculine pronoun)

Synonyms

• ellos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ls/, (before voiced sound) /?lz/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /els/, (before voiced sound) /elz/

Article

els m pl (feminine plural les, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)

1. the; masculine plural definite article

Pronoun

els (proclitic, enclitic los, contracted enclitic 'ls)

1. them (masculine, direct or indirect object).
2. them (feminine, indirect object only).

Declension

Danish

Noun

els c

1. indefinite genitive singular of el

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ls/
• Hyphenation: els
• Rhymes: -?ls

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch else, from Old Dutch *alisa, from Frankish *alisu, from Proto-Germanic *alis?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?élis-.

Compare German Erle, English alder, Danish el, Norwegian older, Icelandic elri.

Noun

els m (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

1. alder, tree of the genus Alnus

Derived terms

• elzenkatje

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch elsene, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *alisn?, *alusn?. Related to *?l?, whence Dutch aal, German Ahle, English awl.

Noun

els f (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

1. (leather working) awl
2. (printing) bodkin

Anagrams

• les

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *elles, genitive of *elli (Middle Dutch el), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /els/

Adverb

els

1. elsewhere

Further reading

• “el, els”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “els”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Pronoun

els

1. they (masculine, common, and indeterminate gender)

Swedish

Noun

els

1. indefinite genitive singular of el

Anagrams

• -sel

Volapük

Article

els

1. nominative plural of el