Definitions and meaning of ess
ess
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĕs, IPA(key): /ˈɛs/
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- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
ess (plural esses)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
- 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
- these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success
- Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
Usage notes
- Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
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
- Synonym: (standard) esse
- (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
- Synonym: (standard) iss
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 / elly / 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. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
- ess in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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
See also
- í essinu sínu (“in one's element”)
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
Penobscot
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian *e·hsa (“shell; mollusk”). Cognate with Unami èhës.
Noun
ess anim (plural èssak, possessed wətéssomal)
- clam, bivalve, mussel, bivalve shell
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
See also
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
Etymology
From Middle English asse, from Old English assa.
Pronunciation
Noun
ess
- ass (donkey)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38
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