Definitions and meaning of ess
ess
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĕs, IPA(key): /ɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
ess (plural esses)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
- Something shaped like the letter S.
Derived terms
Translations
Usage notes
- Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Verb
ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)
- To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.
Hypernyms
Translations
Anagrams
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German esche, asche, from Old High German asc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”). Cognate with German Esche, English ash.
Noun
ess m (plural ésse)
- (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)
Declension
References
- “ess” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Estonian
Noun
ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Faroese
Etymology 1
Noun
ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Etymology 2
Noun
ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
- (card games) ace
Declension
Etymology 3
Noun
ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
- (music) E-flat
Declension
German
Verb
ess
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
- (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛʃː]
- Hyphenation: ess
- Rhymes: -ɛʃː
Etymology 1
esik + -j
Alternative forms
Verb
ess
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik
Etymology 2
Noun
ess
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé
Further reading
- ess in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛsː/
- Rhymes: -ɛsː
Noun
ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
- (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
- (poetic) horse
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin as, via Middle Low German es
Noun
ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)
- an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)
References
- “ess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.
Noun
ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)
- (card games) an ace
- (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete
Usage notes
- Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- Ess (alternative capitalization)
Noun
ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)
- (music) E-flat
References
- “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old Irish
Noun
ess
- Alternative form of es (“cataract, rapid”) m
- Alternative form of es (“vessel”) n
- Alternative form of es (“death”)
- Alternative form of es (“ox”)
Mutation
Swedish
Alternative forms
- äss (meanings 1 and 2 below)
Pronunciation
Noun
ess n
- ace; a card with one mark
- ace; someone very proficient
- (music) E-flat
Declension
Anagrams
Võro
Noun
ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Yola
Noun
ess
- ass (donkey)
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
Source: wiktionary.org- the letter S.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)