mene
English edit
Noun edit
mene (plural menes)
- 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 edit
- mene mene tekel upharsin (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Angguruk Yali edit
Noun edit
mene
References edit
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156
Aromanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)
- Alternative form of mãnã
Cheyenne edit
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mene
- berry, small fruit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Verb edit
mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)
- to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
- Hvad mener du med det?
- What do you mean by that?
- Hvad mener du med det?
- to think, hold, consider
Conjugation edit
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- betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)
Dutch edit
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mene
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Finnish edit
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mene
Lithuanian edit
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mene m
Neapolitan edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
méne
- me (after preposition)
Coordinate terms edit
Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
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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 edit
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- meine (Nynorsk also)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.
Verb edit
mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)
References edit
- “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old English edit
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Etymology edit
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 edit
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mene m
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Portuguese edit
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- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Noun edit
mene m (plural menes)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)
- of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
- me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
mene
- inflection of mena:
Slovak edit
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mene f
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mene n
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mene
- inflection of menar:
West Makian edit
Etymology edit
From me (3rd singular pronoun) + ne (“this”).
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mene
Pronoun edit
mene
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics (as mené)