different between mese vs mesel

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English m?se, m?ose, m?se, m?se (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), probably from Vulgar Latin m?sa, from Latin m?nsa (“table”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic ???????????? (m?s). Compare Old English m?san (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *m?sijan?, from Proto-Germanic *m?s?, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic mat- (“food”).

Alternative forms

• mease

Noun

mese (plural meses)

1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

References

• "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

Verb

mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, seem, seme, semé, smee

Corsican

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mese/, [?me?s?e?]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: me?se

Noun

mese

1. (slang) MSN Messenger

Declension

Anagrams

• Seem

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

mese

1. mouse

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ma???, *ma?? (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]
• Hyphenation: me?se
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mese (plural mesék)

1. fairy tale, tale, fable

   Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori

2. (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn

   Synonyms: hazugság, kitaláció, nagyotmondás, koholmány

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• mese 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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?nsis, m?nsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Derived terms

• mensile
• mensilmente
• mensilità

See also

• Category:it:Months
• settimana
• anno

Anagrams

• seme

Latin

Noun

mes?

1. ablative singular of mes?s
2. vocative singular of mes?s

References

• mese in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mese in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old French

Noun

mese f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)

1. Alternative form of messe

Pohnpeian

Noun

mese

1. face, facade
2. upper part of a yam, taro, pineapple, etc.
3. the edge of a reef

Romanian

Noun

mese f pl

1. plural of mas?

Spanish

Verb

mese

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mesarse.

English

Alternative forms

• mesell, mysel

Etymology

From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel, from Latin misellus (“leper”), from Latin miser (“wretched”). Compare measles.

Adjective

mesel (comparative more mesel, superlative most mesel)

1. (obsolete) Having leprosy; leprous. [14th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• LEEMs, lemes, meles

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French mesel, from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from Latin miser (“wretched”).

Noun

mesel (plural mesels)

1. A leper. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     For she is […] As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh / To monkes to mynstralles · to meseles in hegges.

2. A wretched or revolting person. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Isaiah LIII:

     Verily he suffride oure sikenesses, and he bar oure sorewis; and we arettiden him as a mysel and smytun of God and maad low.

3. Leprosy. [15th-16th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     So hit befelle many yerys agone there happened on her a malodye, and whan she had lyene a grete whyle she felle unto a mesell, and no leche cowde remedye her [...].

Descendants

• English: measle, mesel

Old French

Etymology

From Latin misellus.

Noun

mesel m (oblique plural meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative singular meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative plural mesel)

1. leper

Descendants

• ? Middle English: mesel
  • English: measle, mesel