ess
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess (plural esses)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
- 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
- these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success
- 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
- 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
- Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
Usage notes
[edit]- Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Verb
[edit]ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)
Hypernyms
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[edit]Cimbrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German esche, asche, from Old High German asc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”). Cognate with German Esche, English ash.
Noun
[edit]ess m (plural ésse)
- (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)
- Memme ésse manzich machan biil èrbot.
- Many things can be done with ash wood.
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “ess” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Faroese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Declension
[edit]n11 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Accusative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Dative | essi | essinum | essum | essunum |
Genitive | ess | essins | essa | essanna |
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
Declension
[edit]n11 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Accusative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Dative | essi | essinum | essum | essunum |
Genitive | ess | essins | essa | essanna |
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
Declension
[edit]n11 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Accusative | ess | essið | ess | essini |
Dative | essi | essinum | essum | essunum |
Genitive | ess | essins | essa | essanna |
German
[edit]Verb
[edit]ess
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
- Synonym: (standard) esse
- (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
- Synonym: (standard) iss
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]ess
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | ess | essek |
accusative | esset | esseket |
dative | essnek | esseknek |
instrumental | essel | essekkel |
causal-final | essért | essekért |
translative | essé | essekké |
terminative | essig | essekig |
essive-formal | essként | essekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | essben | essekben |
superessive | essen | esseken |
adessive | essnél | esseknél |
illative | essbe | essekbe |
sublative | essre | essekre |
allative | esshez | essekhez |
elative | essből | essekből |
delative | essről | essekről |
ablative | esstől | essektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
essé | esseké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
esséi | essekéi |
Possessive forms of ess | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | essem | esseim |
2nd person sing. | essed | esseid |
3rd person sing. | esse | essei |
1st person plural | essünk | esseink |
2nd person plural | essetek | esseitek |
3rd person plural | essük | esseik |
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
[edit]- ess in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)
Declension
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[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Poker-sm-211-As.png)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.
Noun
[edit]ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)
- an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)
References
[edit]- “ess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Aceofspades.svg/220px-Aceofspades.svg.png)
From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.
Noun
[edit]ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)
- (card games) an ace
- (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete
Usage notes
[edit]- Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine.[1] The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Ess (alternative capitalization)
Noun
[edit]ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)
References
[edit]- “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)
Anagrams
[edit]Old Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess
- Alternative form of es (“cataract, rapid”) m
- Alternative form of es (“vessel”) n
- Alternative form of es (“death”)
- Alternative form of es (“ox”)
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ess (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ess |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Penobscot
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Algonquian *e·hsa (“shell; mollusk”). Cognate with Unami èhës.
Noun
[edit]ess anim (plural èssak, possessed wətéssomal)
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- äss (meanings 1 and 2 below)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess n
Declension
[edit]Declension of ess | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ess | esset | ess | essen |
Genitive | ess | essets | ess | essens |
See also
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Anagrams
[edit]Võro
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Inflection
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Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English asse, from Old English assa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ess
- ass (donkey)
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38
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