mes

Noun

mes

1. plural of me

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

Anagrams

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛs/

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Noun

mes (plural messe)

1. knife

Alternative forms

• midis

Etymology

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.

Noun

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

1. middle

Etymology

From Latin mensis.

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

References

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

Etymology

From Latin mensis.

Noun

mes m (plural mesh)

1. month

Etymology

From Latin mensis.

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

Etymology

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

Noun

mes

1. sheep

References

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

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin missus, perfect passive participle of mittere.

Etymology 4

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

References

• “mes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *magestus, from *magos.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). Cognate with Welsh mes (“acorns”), Breton mez (“acorns”).

Etymology 3

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛs/

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

Noun

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

1. knife, cleaver
2. (informal) blade

Determiner

mes

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Determiner

mes pl

1. my (when referring to a plural noun)

   Mes clés sont dans ma poche.

   My keys are in my pocket.

Further reading

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

References

• 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

Noun

mes

1. lamb

Romanization

mes

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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”).

Further reading

• “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.

Noun

mes

1. table

Alternative forms

• mez

Noun

mes m (Hebrew spelling מיס)

1. month

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mes

1. we

References

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

Pronoun

mes (personal, 1st person plural)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲæːs/

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Etymology 1

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-.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• mis (Bergamasque)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mez/

Noun

mes m (Milanese)

1. month

Further reading

• mes at Lombard Wiktionary

Etymology

From Latin mensis.

Noun

mes

1. month

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mes/

Noun

mes f

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

See also

• meox
• miċġe
• mīġan

Etymology 1

From Latin magis.

Etymology 2

From Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mēnsis.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Further reading

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

Noun

mes m

1. Alternative spelling of mess

Mutation

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. month

References

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

Etymology

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).

Pronoun

mes

1. we, the first person plural pronoun

References

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

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. Obsolete spelling of mês.

Alternative forms

• 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢 (mes) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Persian [Term?].

Noun

mes (Hanifi spelling 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢)

1. table

Adjective

mes m (feminine mia)

1. (possessive) my

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmes/ [ˈmes]

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

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

   Mi mes favorito es enero.

   My favourite month is January.

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10

Romanization

mes

1. Romanization of 𒈩 (mes)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːs/

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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

Further reading

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

mes f (collective, singulative mesen)

1. acorns

Mutation

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mes

1. table

References

• 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)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255