mec

See also: MEC, meč, мөс, and měć

Contents

English

Noun

mec (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for meconium.

   mec liquor

Anagrams

• CME, ECM, E=mc², cem

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Catalan

Adjective

mec (feminine meca, masculine plural mecs, feminine plural meques)

1. (of a face) hairless; beardless

   Synonym: barbamec

Derived terms

• barbamec

Further reading

• “mec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mec” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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French

Etymology

From a respelling of mac, a shortening of maquereau (“pimp”), from Dutch makelaar (“broker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛk/

Noun

mec m (plural mecs)

1. (slang) guy, fellow, bloke, chap, dude [from the 20th century to present]
2. (obsolete, slang) pimp

Synonyms

• bougre m
• gars m
• type m

Further reading

• “mec” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old English

Alternative forms

• mic, mehc, mech, meh

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *me-ge (“me”). Akin to Old High German mih (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /met͡ʃ/ or IPA^(key): /mek/

Pronoun

meċ

1. Accusative singular form of iċ: me.
2. Reflexive singular form of iċ: myself.

Usage notes

• Like it's counterpart þeċ, this word was only used occasionally. The normal accusative form of iċ was mē: Hē lufaþ mē ("He loves me"), Iċ lufiġe mē ("I love myself").

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Noun

mec

1. forest

Inflection

Inflection of mec
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	?	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	?	mecoihesai
terminative II	mecalesai	mecoilesai
terminative III	mecassai	—
additive I	?	mecoihepäi
additive II	mecalepäi	mecoilepäi

Derived terms

• mectuda
• čapandmec
• taigamec
• mecižand
• meckana
• mecsiga
• mecživat
• mecančapai
• mecanholitai
• mecankaičii
• mecankazvatuztedo
• mecanröun
• mecantedo
• mecanvedomašin

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лес”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Yurok

Noun

mec

1. fire