mene

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English

Noun

mene (plural menes)

  1. The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
    • 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:
      He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
    • 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:
      The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
    • 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:
      The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

See also

Anagrams

Angguruk Yali

Noun

mene

  1. dog

References

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)

  1. Alternative form of mãnã

Cheyenne

Noun

mene

  1. berry, small fruit

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).

Pronunciation

Verb

mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)

  1. to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
    Hvad mener du med det?
    What do you mean by that?
  2. to think, hold, consider

Conjugation

Inflection of mene
present past
simple mener mente
perfect har ment havde ment
passive menes mentes
participle menende ment
imperative men —
infinitive mene —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund menen —

See also

  • betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

mene

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen

Anagrams

Finnish

Verb

mene

  1. inflection of mennä:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Lithuanian

Noun

mene m

  1. locative singular of menas
  2. vocative singular of menas

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

Pronoun

méne

  1. me (after preposition)

Coordinate terms

Number Person Nominative Accusative Dative Reflexive Possessive Prepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.

Verb

mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)

  1. to mean
  2. to think

References

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mene m

  1. necklace, collar
  2. ornament, jewel

Declension

Declension of mene (strong ja-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mene menas
accusative mene menas
genitive menes mena
dative mene menum

Related terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: myne, mune

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: me‧ne

Noun

mene m (plural menes)

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mêne/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ne

Pronoun

mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)

  1. of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
  2. me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
Declension
Declension of mene
singular plural
nominative jȃ mȋ
genitive mȅne, me nȃs
dative mȅni, mi nȁma, nam
accusative mȅne, me nȃs
vocative — mȋ
locative mȅni nȁma
instrumental mnȏm, mnóme nȁma

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mene

  1. inflection of mena:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

mene f

  1. dative/locative singular of mena

Noun

mene n

  1. locative singular of meno

Spanish

Verb

mene

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

West Makian

Etymology

From me (3rd singular pronoun) +‎ ne (“this”).

Pronunciation

Determiner

mene

  1. (proximal, emphatic) this, these
    Synonyms: ne, nema
    Antonym: mema
    niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana

Pronoun

mene

  1. (proximal) this, these
    Antonym: mema
    mene de ti pala ― this is my house

Alternative forms

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as mené)
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