ese

Etymology 1

From Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).

Etymology 2

Cf. ease.

References

• “ese”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• SEE, See, ees, see

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺e/ [e.s̺e]
• Rhymes: -es̺e
• Hyphenation: e‧se

Noun

ese inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

Etymology

e- +‎ -se

Pronoun

ese

1. he, she, it does not

Adjective

ese

1. he, she, it is not
2. he, she, it was not

Related terms

Etymology

Coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century. Compare Finnish esine.

Noun

ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese esse, from Latin ipse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈesɪ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Determiner

ese m (feminine singular esa, masculine plural eses, feminine plural esas, neuter iso)

1. that

Further reading

• “ese”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Noun

ese

1. water

References

• Number and the mass/count distinction in Karitiana

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish ese (“that”), from Latin ipse.

Determiner

ese m sg (Hebrew spelling איסי, plural esos, feminine esa, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) this

   Synonym: este

   • 2004, Los Muestros‎, numbers 56-64, page 35:

     Vay a ver, ninguno sabía hazer el problema ese.

     Go see, nobody knew about causing this problem.

Pronoun

ese m (Hebrew spelling איסי, feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) this

   Synonym: este

   • 1992, Marie-Christine Varol-Bornes, Vidal Sephiha, Domaine judéo-espagnol I: Langue et littérature‎, volume 1, Publications Langues'O, page 102:

     Wa eso era el encuentro.

     So this was the meeting.

Participle

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French aise, eise.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /isi/ or IPA^(key): /iʃi/

Noun

ese

1. light brown-gray

Alternative forms

• esa (a-infinitive)
• (non-standard since 2012) æsa, æse

Etymology

From Germanic, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *yes- (“to well, seethe, foam, ferment”). Compare Icelandic æsa, from Proto-Germanic *jōsijaną.

Verb

ese (present tense esar, past tense esa, past participle esa, passive infinitive esast, present participle esande, imperative ese/es)

1. (intransitive) to swell, seethe, ferment
2. (intransitive, by extension) to grow larger
3. (impersonal) to devolve, be stirred, riled up

   Synonym: ulme

References

• “ese” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.se/, [ˈeː.ze]

Noun

ēse

1. dative singular of ōs

Verb

ese

1. (transitive) to know

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈese/ [ˈe.se]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: e‧se

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ipse.

Further reading

• “ese”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ese, the Spanish name of the letter S/s.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔese/ [ˈʔɛː.sɛ]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: e‧se

Noun

ese (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter S/s, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) es, (in the Abakada alphabet) sa

Further reading

• “ese”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• See

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From è- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ sè (“To dye, to paint”).

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

Etymology 6

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