mene

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mene"

English

Noun

mene (plural menes)

1. 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

• -neme, em- -en, neem

Angguruk Yali

Noun

mene

1. dog

References

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)

1. Alternative form of mãnã

Cheyenne

Noun

mene

1. berry, small fruit

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, 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)

1. to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)

   Hvad mener du med det?

   What do you mean by that?

2. to think, hold, consider

Conjugation

Inflection of mene

	present	past
simple	mener	mente
perfect	har ment	havde ment
passive	menes	mentes
participle	menende	ment
imperative	men	—
infinitive	mene	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	menen	—

See also

• betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

mene

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen

Anagrams

• meen, neem, neme

Finnish

Verb

mene

1. inflection of mennä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Lithuanian

Noun

mene m

1. locative singular of menas
2. vocative singular of menas

Mokilese

Etymology

By surface analysis, -men (animate noun classifier/indefinite marker) +‎ -e (1st person singular demonstrative suffix)

Demonstrative

mene

1. 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

Forms of mene

Demonstrative formss	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

1. me (after preposition)

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	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
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)			éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	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)

1. to mean
2. to think

References

• “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• myne

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

1. necklace, collar
2. ornament, jewel

Declension

Declension of mene (strong ja-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mene	menas
accusative	mene	menas
genitive	menes	mena
dative	mene	menum

Related terms

• manu

Descendants

• Middle English: myne, mune

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ne/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.nɨ/

• Hyphenation: me‧ne

Noun

mene m (plural menes)

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêne/
• Hyphenation: me‧ne

Pronoun

mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)

1. of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
2. me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)

Declension

Declension of mene

	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

1. inflection of mena:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɲe]

Noun

mene f

1. dative/locative singular of mena

Noun

mene n

1. locative singular of meno

Spanish

Verb

mene

1. inflection of menar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

West Makian

Etymology

From me (3rd singular pronoun) +‎ ne (“this”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ˈn̪e/

Determiner

mene

1. (proximal, emphatic) this, these

   Synonyms: ne, nema

   Antonym: mema

   niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana

Pronoun

mene

1. (proximal) this, these

   Antonym: mema

   mene de ti pala ― this is my house

Alternative forms

• mine

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as mené)