mene
English
Noun
mene (plural menes)
- The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
- 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:
- He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
- 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:
- The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
- 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:
- The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.
See also
- mene mene tekel upharsin (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
Angguruk Yali
Noun
mene
References
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156
Aromanian
Etymology
Noun
mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)
- alternative form of mãnã
Cheyenne
Noun
mene
- berry, small fruit
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, Dutch menen, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]
Verb
mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)
- to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
- Hvad mener du med det?
- What do you mean by that?
- Hvad mener du med det?
- to think, hold, consider
Conjugation
See also
- betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)
References
- “mene” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eːnə
Verb
mene
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen
Anagrams
Finnish
Verb
mene
- inflection of mennä:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Lithuanian
Noun
mene m
Mokilese
Etymology
By surface analysis, -men (animate noun classifier/indefinite marker) + -e (1st person singular demonstrative suffix)
Demonstrative
mene
- this (animate noun near the speaker)
Usage notes
Mene is used only when talking about animate nouns that are nearer to the speaker than to the listener.
See also
general | animate | long | piece | plural | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st person (near speaker) |
oawe | mene | pase | kije | pwiai, pwiak |
2nd person (near hearer) |
oawen | menen | pasen | kijen | pwian |
3rd person (near neither speaker nor hearer) |
oawo | meno | paso | kijo | pwiok |
References
- Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmen(ə)/
Pronoun
méne
- me (after preposition)
Coordinate terms
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | possessive | prepositional | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | first person | io (i') | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne | |||
second person |
familiar | tu | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne | |||
formal | vuje | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje | ||||
third person |
m | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso | |
f | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | éssa | ||||
plural | first person | nuje | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje | |||
second person | vuje | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje | ||||
third person |
m | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro | |
f | llòro | 'e (le) |
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- meine (Nynorsk also)
Etymology
From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.
Verb
mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)
References
- “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme.ne/
Noun
mene m
Declension
Strong ja-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mene | menas |
accusative | mene | menas |
genitive | menes | mena |
dative | mene | menum |
Related terms
Descendants
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.ni/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈme.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.nɨ/
- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Noun
mene m (plural menes)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mêne/
- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Pronoun
mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | jȃ | mȋ |
genitive | mȅne, me | nȃs |
dative | mȅni, mi | nȁma, nam |
accusative | mȅne, me | nȃs |
vocative | — | mȋ |
locative | mȅni | nȁma |
instrumental | mnȏm, mnóme | nȁma |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mene
- inflection of mena:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmeɲe]
Noun
mene f
- dative/locative singular of mena
Noun
mene n
- locative singular of meno
Spanish
Verb
mene
- inflection of menar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
West Makian
Etymology
From me (3rd singular pronoun) + ne (“this”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ˈn̪e/
Determiner
mene
Pronoun
mene
Alternative forms
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics (as mené)