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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Noun

meon (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) spignel, Meum athamanticum

Synonyms

• (Meum athamanticum): meu, meum; baldmoney, maldmoney; spignel, spicknel, spiknel, spikenel; bearwort, bear-wort, bear's wort

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Emon, Mone, NEMO, Nome, meno-, mone, nemo, nome, omen

Irish

Alternative forms

• meón (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /m?u?n??/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

meon m (genitive singular meoin, nominative plural meonta)

1. attitude, disposition
2. character, temperament
3. Alternative form of mian (“desire”)
4. Alternative form of méin (“mind, disposition”)

Declension

Derived terms

• meonúil (“whimsical, fanciful, capricious; particular, fastidious”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

meon m (genitive singular meoin, nominative plural meoin)

1. Alternative form of meán (“middle; mean; medium; average; middle, waist; middle zone”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "meon" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old French

Adjective

meon

1. (9th century) Alternative form of mon

Usage notes

• Used in the Oaths of Strasbourg.

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (méson, “middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s.?n/

Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.

Derived terms

• ventrimeson
• dorsimeson

Etymology 2

From meso- +? on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?z?n/, /?-s?n/, /?m?-/

Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (obsolete) A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)
2. (now specifically, physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)

Synonyms

• mesotron

Hypernyms

• boson
• hadron

Hyponyms

• scalar meson
• vector meson

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• 'mones, Mones, Semon, mones, nomes, omens, semon, somen

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

meson n (plural mesonen)

1. (physics) meson

Esperanto

Noun

meson

1. accusative singular of meso

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.z??/

Noun

meson m (plural mesons)

1. Alternative spelling of méson

Old French

Alternative forms

• maisun
• maison

Etymology

From Latin mansi?, mansi?nem (“abode, home, dwelling”).

Noun

meson f (oblique plural mesons, nominative singular meson, nominative plural mesons)

1. house

Descendants

• French: maison