asse

See also: asses, Asse, ässe, assé, and -asse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. Obsolete spelling of ass

Etymology 2

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. (obsolete) A small fox-like animal (Vulpes chama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.
   • 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10‎^[1], page 769:

     South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (F. cama) } a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for asse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• ESAs, Essa, SAEs, SASE, SSAE, Seas, ases, seas

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• assu, essen, ässe, ässä

Etymology

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

asse

1. (Carcoforo) to eat

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

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Noun

asse m (plural asses)

1. a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

Further reading

• “asse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.se/
• Rhymes: -asse
• Syllabification: às‧se

Etymology 1

From Latin axis, axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. board (of wood)

   Synonyms: pancone, tavola

2. beam (gymnastic)

Etymology 2

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

Noun

asse m (plural assi)

1. axle
2. (mathematics, physics) axis
3. (anatomy) axis (vertebra)

   Synonym: epistrofeo

Derived terms

• assiale

Etymology 3

From Latin as.

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

Anagrams

• -essa, essa

Latin

Noun

asse

1. ablative singular of as

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative	asse
Genitive	ase
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asse	ase
Accusative	asev	asijt
Genitive	ase	asij
Illative	assáj	asijda
Inessive	asen	asijn
Elative	ases	asijs
Comitative	asijn	asij
Abessive	asedagá asedagi	asijdagá asijdagi
Essive	assen
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person assám assáma assáma 2nd person assát assáda assáda 3rd person asses asseska assesa

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English assa.

Alternative forms

• as

Noun

asse (plural assen or asses)

1. ass, donkey

Descendants

• English: ass
• Yola: ess

References

• “asse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

asse

1. Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• assa

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.

Adjective

asse (comparative assu)

1. easy

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	assae	assae	assae
Vocative	assai
Accusative	assae	assai
Genitive	assai	assae	assai
Dative	assu	assai	assu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	assai	assai
Vocative	assai assu*
Accusative	assai assu*
Genitive	assae
Dative	assaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Derived terms

• anse

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
asse	unchanged	n-asse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 assa(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• अस्से (Devanagari script)
• অস্সে (Bengali script)
• අස‍්සෙ (Sinhalese script)
• အဿေ or ဢသ်သေ (Burmese script)
• อสฺเส or อัสเส (Thai script)
• ᩋᩔᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອສ຺ເສ or ອັສເສ (Lao script)
• អស្សេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

asse

1. locative singular of assa
2. accusative plural of assa

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative	asse
Genitive	ase
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asse	ase
Accusative	asev	isijt
Genitive	ase	isij
Illative	assáj	isijda
Inessive	asen	isijn
Elative	asest ases	isijst isijs
Comitative	isijn	isij
Essive	assen

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

asse

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