different between mese vs meze

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

• mezze, mazzeh, mazze

Etymology

From Turkish meze and Greek ????? (mezés), both from Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ze?/

Noun

meze (countable and uncountable, plural mezes or mezedes)

1. Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

Further reading

• meze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mzee

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?z?]

Noun

meze f

1. inflection of mez:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

meze

1. in the middle of, amid
   • 1908, J. Arbes, trans. by Jos. Gr?a, Rakontoj

     Lia rigardo ekrondis en la malri?a, mizera ?ambreto kaj fiksis sur la blondulino, sidanta en luksa balvesto meze de plej mizera meblaro plej sor?e lumigita.

     His regard started around the poor, miserable small room and fixed upon the blond woman sitting in luxurious party clothing in the middle of most miserable furniture most bewitchingly illuminated.

   • 1999, Mark Twain, trans. by Edwin Grobe, "Konfeso de Mortanto", Tri Noveloj

     Imagu kion li devis eksenti veki?inte meze de tiu senvo?a silento kaj ?irka?spektadinte tiun malgajan mortintaron!

     Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush and look out over that grim congregation of the dead!

   • 2006, Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Odd Tangerud, La kolonoj de la socio, ?ISBN

     Meze sur la kontra?a pordo estas pli granda enir-pordo.

     On the middle of the opposite door is a larger entrance door.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mèza

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”). Akin to mezètluk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ze/
• Hyphenation: me?ze

Noun

mèze n (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) snack, bite

Declension

Derived terms

• mèzetiti
• zamèzetiti

References

• “meze” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 462