ess
English edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ess (plural esses)
- The name of the Latin-script letter 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 edit
Translations edit
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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 edit
Translations edit
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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.
Faroese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
- The name of the Latin-script letter 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.
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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)
Declension edit
See also edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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
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 | 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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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ess | esset | ess | essen |
Genitive | ess | essets | ess | essens |
See also edit
Playing cards in Swedish · kort (layout · text) | ||||||
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ess, äss | tvåa, två | trea, tre | fyra | femma, fem | sexa, sex | sjua, sju |
åtta | nia, nio | tia, tio | knekt | dam, drottning | kung | joker |
Anagrams edit
Võro edit
Noun edit
ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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