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mese

mese noun: a dinner; meal.

Noun (1)

mese (plural meses)

  1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

Verb

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

  1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

Noun (2)

mese (plural meses)

  1. (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.

Forms of mese

Noun
pluralmeses
alternative formmease
Verb
third-person singular presentmeses
present participlemesing
past participlemesed
pastmesed

Origin of mese

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English mēse, mēose, mīse, mȳse (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs). Compare Old English mēsan (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *mōsijaną, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic *mat- (“food”).

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

Unadapted borrowing from Latin mesē, from Ancient Greek μέση (mésē, literally “middle [string]”).

Questions about mese

What does mese mean?
Mese means a dinner; meal.
What part of speech is mese?
Mese can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mese?
The plural of mese is meses.

Words near mese in the dictionary

  1. Mescudi
  2. Mescudis
  3. mesdames
  4. mesdemet
  5. mesdemoiselles
  6. mese
  7. meseclazone
  8. mesectoderm
  9. mesectodermal
  10. mesectoderms
  11. meseemed

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