mec
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
mec (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium.
- mec liquor
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
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VerbEdit
mec (third-person present singular indicative meche, past participle mãcate)
- Alternative form of mãc
Related termsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unknown.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mec (feminine meca, masculine plural mecs, feminine plural meques)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “mec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “mec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From mac, a shortening of maquereau (“pimp”), from Dutch makelaar (“broker”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mec m (plural mecs)
- (slang) guy, fellow, bloke, chap, dude, boyfriend [from 20th c.]
- 1984, “Paris”, performed by Taxi Girl (sung by Daniel Darc):
- Hé mec ! Mec, comment t'épelles Paris ?
- Hey dude! Dude, how do ya spell Paris?
- (obsolete, slang) pimp
Further readingEdit
- “mec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *me-ge (“me”). Akin to Old High German mih (“me”).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mec
- accusative of iċ: me
Usage notesEdit
- Like its counterpart þec, this word was common in the Anglian dialects, but used only occasionally in the West Saxon dialect. The normal accusative form of iċ in the West Saxon dialect was mē: Hē lufaþ mē ("He loves me"), Iċ lufiġe mē ("I love myself").
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *meccä.
NounEdit
mec
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of mec (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | mec | ||
| genitive sing. | mecan | ||
| partitive sing. | mecad | ||
| partitive plur. | mecoid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mec | mecad | |
| accusative | mecan | mecad | |
| genitive | mecan | mecoiden | |
| partitive | mecad | mecoid | |
| essive-instructive | mecan | mecoin | |
| translative | mecaks | mecoikš | |
| inessive | mecas | mecoiš | |
| elative | mecaspäi | mecoišpäi | |
| illative | mecaha mecha |
mecoihe | |
| adessive | mecal | mecoil | |
| ablative | mecalpäi | mecoilpäi | |
| allative | mecale | mecoile | |
| abessive | mecata | mecoita | |
| comitative | mecanke | mecoidenke | |
| prolative | mecadme | mecoidme | |
| approximative I | mecanno | mecoidenno | |
| approximative II | mecannoks | mecoidennoks | |
| egressive | mecannopäi | mecoidennopäi | |
| terminative I | mecahasai mechasai |
mecoihesai | |
| terminative II | mecalesai | mecoilesai | |
| terminative III | mecassai | — | |
| additive I | mecahapäi mechapäi |
mecoihepäi | |
| additive II | mecalepäi | mecoilepäi | |
Derived termsEdit
- mectuda
- čapandmec
- taigamec
- mecižand
- meckana
- mecsiga
- mecživat
- mecančapai
- mecanholitai
- mecankaičii
- mecankazvatuztedo
- mecanröun
- mecantedo
- mecanvedomašin
ReferencesEdit
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лес”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
YurokEdit
NounEdit
mec