mese

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noun

A dinner; meal.

OriginMiddle English mese ← Old English mēse ← Late Latin mē(n)sa →
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Meanings

mese1

nounmese (plural meses)

plural meses · alternative mease

  1. obsoleteA dinner; meal.

mese2

verbmese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

present singular third person meses · participle present mesing · participle past mesed · past mesed

  1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

mese3

nounmese (plural meses)

plural meses

  1. musical pitchIn Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.

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mealrepastsnack

Origin

mese · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*mat-“food”
  2. Proto-Germanic*mōsą
  3. Proto-Germanic*mōsijaną
  4. Late Latinmē(n)sa“table; meal”
  5. Old Englishmēse
  6. Middle Englishmese
  7. Englishmese

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English mēse, mēose, mīse, mȳse (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs). Compare Old English mēsan (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *mōsijaną, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic *mat- (“food”).

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mese · verb

  1. North Germanic
  2. Middle Englishmesen
  3. Englishmese

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

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mese · noun

  1. Ancient Greekμέση
  2. Latinmesē
  3. Englishmese

Unadapted borrowing from Latin mesē, from Ancient Greek μέση (mésē, literally “middle [string]”).

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APA

mese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mese

MLA

“mese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mese. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mese,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mese.

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