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English

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.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmjuː/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmju/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

meu (uncountable)

  1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
    Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort
Translations
Meum athamanticum — see baldmoney

References

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

Noun

meu (plural meus)

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

References

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

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronoun

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

  1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

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

Related terms

See also

Catalan

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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

  1. my, mine
Usage notes
  • 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
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine 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-.
See also

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Interjection

meu

  1. meow

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

  1. meow
    Synonym: miol

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin mēum.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

  1. baldmoney, spignel

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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

  1. (possessive) my
    Este é o meu coche ― This is my car
  2. (possessive) mine
    Este coche é meu ― This car is mine

Interjection

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!

See also

References

  • “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 reading

Ligurian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

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

  1. my, mine
    Synonym: mon

Descendants

  • Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Verb

meu

  1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: meu
  • Audio (Brazil - São Paulo)(file)

Determiner

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

  2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
    2. pertaining or belonging to me; my
      o meu computador ― my computer
    4. that serves or interests me; my
      o meu carro ― my car
    6. introduced by me; my
      o herói da minha história ― the hero of my story
    8. merited by me; my
      ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro ― I still haven't received my money

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Pronoun

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

  1. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)

Interjection

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Possessee
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


Romanian

Alternative forms

  • meŭ — old orthography

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Determiner

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

Declension

Declension of meu (indefinite 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 — — — —

Pronoun

meu m or n

  1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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

  1. my, mine

Related terms

Sassarese

Pronunciation

Determiner

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:
      Lu méu nascimèntu l’abìa dinunziaddu sóru in municipiu
      She declared my birth only at the register office

Pronoun

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

  1. Alternative form of méiu

References

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

Zou

Meu.

Etymology

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

Noun

meu

  1. cat (Felis catus)

References

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