Mee

See also: mee, meé, me'e, mee-, me'ẽ, and mēē

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer.
• As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadh (“honor”). Compare Meehan, McNamee.
• As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus.
• (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

Proper noun

Mee (countable and uncountable, plural Mees)

1. A surname.
2. A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System

Anagrams

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin māius, from the Roman goddess Maia, the Italic goddess of growth. Cognate with English May, German Mai, Dutch maj, Icelandic maí, West Frisian maaie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Homophone: mee

Proper noun

Mee m (plural Meeën)

1. May

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) Mount am Gregorianesche Kalenner; Januar, Februar, Mäerz, Abrëll, Mee, Juni, Juli, August, September, Oktober, November, Dezember ^{(Category: lb:Months)}

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish Mide (“Meath”), most likely from mide (“middle, centre”).

Proper noun

Yn Vee f

1. Meath

Synonyms

• Coontae ny Mee

Derived terms

• Yn Eearvee