mes

mes

1. plural of me

   If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?

• EMS, EMs, Ems, MSE, SEM, SME, Sem, ems, sem

• (Myanmar) /mɛ˧˩/
• (Lianghe) [mɑ⁵⁵]

mes

1. to want, wish for
2. to be willing

• o mes

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 81

From Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛs/

• Audio:

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mes (plural messe)

1. knife

• knipmes
• slagmes

• → Zulu: umese
  • Fanagalo: mes (or directly)

• midis

From Proto-Albanian *meTi, *meTśi-, from Proto-Indo-European *me-t/dhi (“with, middle”), ultimately from *medʰyo-. Cognate to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸 (miþ, “with”). It might represent a devoiced variant of mez. A loan from Modern Greek μέσος (mésos, “in the middle”) is not excluded.

mes m (plural mese, definite mesi, definite plural meset)

1. middle

• mesditë
• mesnatë

• midis

From Latin mensis.

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mes”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin mensis.

mes m (plural mesh)

1. month

• (month): lunã

From Latin mensis.

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

Cognate with Garo mes. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

mes

1. sheep

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Catalan mes, from Latin mēnsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Occitan mes, French mois, Spanish mes.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmes]
• Homophone: més
• Rhymes: -es

mes m (plural mesos)

1. month

• mesada

• mensual

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, mays, from Latin magis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmes]
• Homophone: més
• Rhymes: -es

mes

1. but

Inherited from Latin missus, perfect passive participle of mittere.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈməs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmes]
• Rhymes: -es

mes (feminine mesa, masculine plural mesos, feminine plural meses)

1. past participle of metre

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məs/ (always unstressed)
• (Valencia, Alghero) IPA^(key): /mes/ (always unstressed)

mes

1. feminine plural of mon

• “mes”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Cornish mes, from Proto-Brythonic *maɣes, from Proto-Celtic *mages-tus - from *magos. Cognate with Breton maez and Welsh maes (“field”).

mes m (plural mesyow)

1. open field, open country

mes

1. out, outside

   Synonym: yn-mes

From Middle Cornish mes, from Proto-Brythonic *mes, from Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). Cognate with Breton mez, Irish and Scottish Gaelic meas (“fruit”), Manx mess (“fruit”), and Welsh mes.

mes f (collective, singulative mesen)

1. acorns

Cognate with Breton met.

• (Revived Late Cornish) bes

mes

1. but

From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mes
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Homophone: Mesch

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

1. knife, cleaver
2. (informal) blade

mes

1. feminine plural of mon
2. alternative form of mos, masculine plural of mon

From Old French mes, from Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/, (in liaison) /mɛ.z‿/
• IPA^(key): /me/, (in liaison) /me.z‿/

• Audio:

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mes pl

1. my (when referring to a plural noun)

   Mes clés sont dans ma poche.

   My keys are in my pocket.

• Louisiana Creole: mê

• “mes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis. Compare Portuguese mês and Spanish mes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmes/ [ˈmes̺]
• Rhymes: -es
• Hyphenation: mes

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mes”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mes”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mes”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mes”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mes

1. lamb

mes

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛs]
• Hyphenation: mès

From Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.

mès (plural mes-mes)

1. mess (hall)

From English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).

mès (plural mes-mes)

1. (engineering) mesh:
   1. a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them
   2. the opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space

From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).

mès (plural mes-mes)

1. (colloquial) artificial fertilizer

From Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).

mès (plural mes-mes)

1. (surgery, colloquial) scalpel, blade, medical knife

   Synonyms: bisturi, pisau bedah, pisau operasi, skalpel

   Kemudian tampak fasia, diinsisi dengan memberikan mes no 22 dan dijepit dengan memberikan pinset cirurgis. ― Fascia appeared, incised with 22 blade and clamped with surgical forceps.

   Berikan mes no 15 dan pinset chirurgi pada operator untuk insisi kulit sampai fasia. ― Give the blade 15 and surgical forceps to the operator for skin incision to the fascia.

• “mes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

mes

1. table

• mez

mes m (Hebrew spelling מיס)

1. month

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲæs]
• Hyphenation: mes

mes

1. we

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35

mes (personal, 1st person plural)

1. (dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs

• IPA^(key): /mʲæːs/

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *my; akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ). This form in m replaced Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”), probably after the 1st person plural verbal suffix -me. At the East-Baltic stage, the oblique forms were rebuilt by analogy with jūs. Compare the Old Prussian oblique forms nūsan, nūmans, and Old Church Slavonic насъ, намъ (nasŭ, namŭ), from *n̥s-, nos-.

mẽs

1. we (first-person plural pronoun)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mès

1. third-person future indicative of mèsti

• mis (Bergamasque)

From Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.

• IPA^(key): /mez/

mes m (Milanese)

1. month

• mes at Lombard Wiktionary

From Latin mensis.

mes

1. month

From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

mes

1. past participle of metre

Uncertain. Perhaps derived from Proto-West Germanic *mihsu, the nominative/accusative plural of *mihs (“dung, excrement; urine”), reanalysed as a singular noun. Compare Old Frisian mēse (“urine”).

• IPA^(key): /mes/

mes f

1. dung
2. (in the plural) fertiliser, manure

Strong ō-stem:

• meox
• miċġe
• mīġan

From Latin magis.

• mais

mes

1. but

• French: mais

From Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

mes m pl or f pl

1. my (first-person plural possessive)

• French: mes

Inherited from Latin mēnsis.

• IPA^(key): [mes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Hyphenation: mes

mes m (plural meses)

1. month
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , cantiga 5 ([ facsimile]), lines 135–140:

     Muitos gafos sãou a Emperadriz en aquele mes;
     mas de grand' algo que porên lle davan ela ren non pres,
     mas andou en muitas romarías, e depois ben a tres
     meses entrou na cidade de Roma, u ér' o cortês
     Emperador, que a chamou e disso-lle: “Ves?
     Guári-m' est' irmão gaf', e dar-ch-ei grand' haver.”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Fala: mes
• Galician: mes
• Portuguese: mês

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “mes”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

mes m

1. alternative spelling of mess

From Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.

mes m (oblique plural mes, nominative singular mes, nominative plural mes)

1. month

• Occitan: mes

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mensis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 713

From Proto-Indo-European *wéy, with the initial m- appearing due to influence from the first-person verbal suffix and the first-person singular object pronoun. Cognate with Latvian mēs, Lithuanian mẽs, Proto-Slavic *my, Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ).

mes

1. we, the first person plural pronoun

See as for declension of mes.

• Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “mes”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎^[2] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
• W. R. Schmalstieg (1971) “New Look at the Old Prussian Pronoun”, in Baltistica VII(2), Vilnius: Vilniau Universitetas

mes m (plural meses)

1. obsolete spelling of mês

• 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢 (mes) — Hanifi Rohingya script

From Persian [Term?].

mes (Hanifi spelling 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢)

1. table

mes m (feminine mia)

1. (possessive) my

Inherited from Latin mēnsis (“month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmes/ [ˈmes]

  • Audio (Peru):

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  • Rhymes: -es
• IPA^(key): (Murcia, Eastern Andalusia) [mɛː]
• Syllabification: mes

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

   Mi mes favorito es enero.

   My favourite month is January.

• “mes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

mes

1. romanization of 𒈩 (mes)

• IPA^(key): /meːs/

From Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål meis, meise and Norwegian Nynorsk meis, meise.

mes c

1. a tit (genus Parus), a small bird

• blåmes
• mesig (“wimpy”)
• stjärtmes

From Old Swedish mes, mese, likely derived from a verb cognate of Icelandic meita (“cut, chop”). Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål meis and Norwegian Nynorsk meis.

mes c

1. the metal frame of a backpack

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to Norwegian meis and Dutch miezel.

mes c

1. (colloquial, derogatory) a wimp, a wuss, a coward

• mes in Svensk ordbok.
• “mes”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎^[3] (in Swedish), 1937

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). Cognate with Breton mez (“acorns”), Irish meas (“fruit”).

mes f (collective, singulative mesen)

1. acorns

• mesa (“to gather acorns”)

• derw (“oaks”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “mesen”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

mes

1. table

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255