meu
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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]
Alternative formsEdit
- (rare) mew
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
meu (uncountable)
TranslationsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (“meu”).
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
meu (plural meus)
- (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
- Coordinate term: migan
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “meu, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.
PronounEdit
meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)
- my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
Usage notesEdit
Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, 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 meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)
Usage notesEdit
- 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
DeclensionEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
meu m (plural meus)
- (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
meu m (plural meus)
Further readingEdit
- “meu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)
- (possessive) my
- Este é o meu coche ― This is my car
- (possessive) mine
- Este coche é meu ― This car is mine
InterjectionEdit
meu
- 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!
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Further readingEdit
- “meu” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
LigurianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos), μόλος (mólos), itself from Latin mōlēs.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
meu m (invariable)
- jetty, pier, mole
- 1984, Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), “Sidón”, in 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 CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)
DescendantsEdit
- Catalan: meu
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
VerbEdit
meu
- past participle of movoir
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: meu
Audio (Brazil - São Paulo) (file)
DeterminerEdit
meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)
- First-person singular possessive pronoun.
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.
PronounEdit
meu (feminine minha, masculine plural meus, feminine plural minhas)
- mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)
InterjectionEdit
meu!
- (Portugal, Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
- (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.
See alsoEdit
Possessee | ||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |||
Possessor | Singular | First person | meu | minha | meus | minhas |
Second person | teu | tua | teus | tuas | ||
Third person | seu | sua | seus | suas | ||
Plural | First person | nosso | nossa | nossos | nossas | |
Second person | vosso | vossa | vossos | vossas | ||
Third person | seu | sua | seus | suas | ||
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese |
RomanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- meŭ (old orthography)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)
DeclensionEdit
PronounEdit
meu m or n
- (preceded by "al") mine
See alsoEdit
SardinianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)
Related termsEdit
SassareseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
meu (feminine singular mea, masculine and feminine plural mei)
- Alternative form of méiu
PronounEdit
meu m (feminine singular mea, masculine and feminine plural mei)
- Alternative form of méiu
ReferencesEdit
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
ZouEdit
EtymologyEdit
Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese 貓/猫 (māo).
NounEdit
meu
ReferencesEdit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65