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meu

See also: meü and MEU

English

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Etymology 1

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Meu

From Latin mēum (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.[1]

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meu (uncountable)

  1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
    Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (“meu”).

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Noun

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meu (plural meus)

  1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
    Coordinate term: migan

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  1. ^ “meu, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

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meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

  1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

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Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan meu, from Latin meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

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meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

  1. my, mine
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  • When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.
    el meu gos ― my dog
  • Also used after some prepositions:
    dins meu ― inside me
    davant meu ― in front of me
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Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
singular 1st
person 		standard jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd
person 		m ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
f ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
n ho -ho li -li seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd
person 		m ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
f elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi

1 Behaves grammatically as plural.   2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition.   4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

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meu

  1. meow

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. meow
    Synonym: miol

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Latin mēum.

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. baldmoney, spignel

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Fala

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From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, inherited from Latin metus.

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meu m (plural meus)

  1. fear

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

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meu m (masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

  1. First-person singular possessive determiner.
    1. my (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of me)
      Este é o meu coche ― This is my car

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Usually Galician possessives must be preceded by the definite or indefinite article:

  • María é a miña moza ― María is my girlfriend
  • Este é o meu can ― This is my dog
  • Un meu can foi campión o ano pasado ― A dog of mine was last year's champion
  • Unha miña tía traballou na Antártida ― An uncle of mine worked at the Antarctic

There are exception when used as a vocative or when implying familiarity:

  • Meu amigo, non vaias aló! ― Don't go there, my friend!
  • Miña nai está enferma ― My mom is sick

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meu m (masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

  1. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
    1. mine (used predicatively)
      Este coche é meu. ― This car is mine.
    2. mine (used substantively, with an implied noun)
      Non teño moito, pero o meu é suficiente para vivir. ― I don't have much, but mine is enough to live on.

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meu

  1. man; dude; pal; bro
    Éche o que hai, meu. Hai que roelo ― Things are like that, bro. You must face it
    Meu! Fixéchelo! ― Dude! You did it!

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Galician possessives
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
singular
 first person meu miña meus miñas
second person teu túa teus túas
third person any seu súa seus súas
m del
f dela
plural
 first person noso nosa nosos nosas
second person voso vosa vosos vosas
third person any seu súa seus súas
m deles
f delas

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Ligurian

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos), μόλος (mólos), itself from Latin mōlēs.

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meu m (invariable)

  1. jetty, pier, mole
    • 1984, “Sidón”, in Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), Crêuza de mâ [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:
      E dòpp'i færi in gôa, i færi da prixón / e 'nte ferîe a seménsa velenóza da deportaçión / perché de nòstro, da-a cianûa a-o meu / no peu ciù crésce ni èrbo, ni spîga, ni figeu
      And after the iron in the throat, the iron of the prison, and the poisonous seed of deportation inside the wounds, because no tree, or spike, or boy of ours is allowed to grow any longer, from the plain to the pier

Old Catalan

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Etymology

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From Latin meum.

Adjective

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meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

  1. my, mine
    Synonym: mon

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  • Catalan: meu

Old French

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  • meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

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meu

  1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

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mou (Trás-os-Montes)

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

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  • (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira, unstressed) IPA(key): [me]
  • Hyphenation: meu
  • Audio (São Paulo):(file)

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meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

  1. my (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of me)
    O meu computador deu tela azul. ― My computer bluescreened.
    Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro. ― I still haven't received my money.
    O meu pai veio me visitar. ― My father came to visit me.
    Tenho que devolver os meus livros pra biblioteca logo.
    I have to take my books back to the library soon.
    • 2002, Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Antropologia, Saúde e Envelhecimento, SciELO Books, Editora FIOCRUZ, →ISBN, page 81:
      Ah, hoje o individualismo tomou conta da população. Cada um ‘primeiro eu’, depois eu, depois eu, depois eu, depois a minha mãe... e olhe lá. E olhe lá... Não, hoje a coisa tá desse jeito. Por incrível que pareça... é verdade.
      Today, individualism has taken over the population. Everyone ‘me first’, then me, then me, then me, then my mother... at best. At best... No, that's the way it is today. Incredible as it may seem... it's true.
    • 2007, Robson André, Inutaoshi: "A Presa do Lobo", Clube de Autores, page 141:
      Retirei o meu obi, junto com Ootsuka, e o depositei sobre o capim baixo. Arrumei o meu kimono, que estava em farrapos, junto ao corpo e comecei a vestir a minha proteção.
      I took off my obi, along with Ootsuka, and laid it on the low grass. I arranged my kimono, which was in tatters, next to my body and began to put on my protection.
    • 2012, Vanessa de Oliveira, Psicopatas do coração, Matrix Editora, →ISBN, page 110:
      Liguei meu notebook para ver as mensagens do dia. Aos poucos eu estava voltando a responder os e-mails de meus leitores.
      I turned on my laptop to check the day's messages. Little by little I was getting back to answering my readers' emails.
    • 2015, György Dragomán, O Rei Branco, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 85:
      […] abriu a gaveta do armário, pegou um alfinete de segurança, parou diante de mim, tirou a medalha da minha mão e se curvou e a pôs no meu colete, […]
      […] opened the cupboard drawer, took out a safety pin, stopped in front of me, took the medal from my hand and bent down and put it in my vest, […]

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meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

  1. mine (used predicatively)
    A casa em si é minha, mas o terreno não é.
    The house itself is mine, but the land isn't.
  2. mine (used absolutely, set off from the sentence)
    Minha por só uma semana, a caneta-tinteiro já parece um velho amigo.
    Mine for only a week so far, the fountain pen already feels like an old friend.

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meu m (plural meus, feminine minha, feminine plural minhas)

  1. (with the definite article) mine (used substantively, with an implied noun)
    Não tenho muito, mas o meu é suficiente para se viver.
    I don't have much, but mine is enough to live on.

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meu!

  2. (Portugal, Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
  4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
  6. (Portugal, slang) dude

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Portuguese possessives
singular possessum plural possessum
masculine feminine masculine feminine
singular
possessor 		first person meu minha meus minhas
second person teu tua teus tuas
third person any seu sua seus suas
m dele
f dela
plural
possessor 		first person nosso nossa nossos nossas
second person vosso vossa vossos vossas
third person any seu sua seus suas
m deles
f delas

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Alternative forms

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  • meŭ — old orthography

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

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meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

  1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

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Declension of meuindefinite only
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite meu mea mei mele
definite — — — —
genitive-
dative 		indefinite meu mele mei mele
definite — — — —

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meu m or n

  1. (preceded by "al") mine

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Sardinian

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Etymology

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From Latin meus.

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meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

  1. my, mine
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meu (feminine singular mea, plural mei)

  1. Alternative form of méiu
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Turrendi a bidda mea [Going back to my town]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 89:
      E canti volthi, o bidda mea natiba,
      soggu giuntu a zirchà
      da te li cosi mei chi v’aggiu pessu
      And how many times, o native town of mine, have I come to you looking for the things that I have lost here
    • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nomme fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎[2]:
      Lu méu nascimèntu l’abìa dinunziaddu sóru in municipiu
      She [my mother] declared my birth only at the register office

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meu m (feminine singular mea, masculine and feminine plural mei)

  1. Alternative form of méiu

References

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Zou

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Meu.

Etymology

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Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese 貓 / 猫 (māo).

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meu

  1. cat (Felis catus)

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65
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