different between mess vs mese

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".

Noun

mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)

2. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.

   Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder

3. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.

4. (euphemistic) Excrement.

5. (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mess.

Translations

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
   1. To make soiled by defecating.
2. (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
   • 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas

     It wasn't right either to be messing another man's sleep.

3. (intransitive) To interfere.

4. (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English mes, partly from Old English m?se, m?ose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mitt? (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).

Noun

mess (plural messes)

1. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
3. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
   • c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel

     1. a mess of pottage
4. (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
5. A building or room in which mess is eaten.
6. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
7. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
8. (collective) A group of iguanas.

   Synonym: slaughter

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Mess (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
3. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
   • 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:

     Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...

4. (transitive) To supply with a mess.

Further reading

• Mess (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• mess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• messél, metssz, metsszél

Etymology

metsz +? -j (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of metsz

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (massa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/

Verb

mess (imperfect jmiss, past participle mimsus)

1. to touch
2. (figuratively) to touch, to affect

Conjugation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mes. Cognate with Irish meas (“fruit, mast”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?s/

Noun

mess m (genitive singular mess, plural messyn)

1. (botany) fruit

Derived terms

• messghart

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mess

1. imperative of messe

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• mes

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?es]

Noun

mess m (genitive messa, nominative plural mesai)

1. verbal noun of midithir
2. judgment
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of sms.

Noun

mess n

1. (colloquial) text message

   Synonym: sms

Declension

Derived terms

• messa

References

• mess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mess in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Vilamovian

Noun

mess n

1. brass

Related terms

• messera

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

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

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.