ess

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English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ess (plural esses)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/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
    • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
      I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
  2. Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)

Usage notes

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  • Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)

  1. To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.

Hypernyms

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Translations

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Anagrams

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Cimbrian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German esche, asche, from Old High German asc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (ash tree). Cognate with German Esche, English ash.

Noun

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ess m (plural ésse)

  1. (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)
    Memme ésse manzich machan biil èrbot.
    Many things can be done with ash wood.

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References

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  • “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

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Noun

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ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Faroese

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Declension
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n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. (card games) ace
Declension
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n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

Etymology 3

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Noun

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ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. (music) E-flat
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n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

German

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Verb

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ess

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
    Synonym: (standard) esse
  2. (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
    Synonym: (standard) iss

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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esik +‎ -j

Alternative forms

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Verb

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ess

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Etymology 2

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Noun

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ess

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ess essek
accusative esset esseket
dative essnek esseknek
instrumental essel essekkel
causal-final essért essekért
translative essé essekké
terminative essig essekig
essive-formal essként essekként
essive-modal
inessive essben essekben
superessive essen esseken
adessive essnél esseknél
illative essbe essekbe
sublative essre essekre
allative esshez essekhez
elative essből essekből
delative essről essekről
ablative esstől essektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
essé esseké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
esséi essekéi
Possessive forms of ess
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. essem esseim
2nd person sing. essed esseid
3rd person sing. esse essei
1st person plural essünk esseink
2nd person plural essetek esseitek
3rd person plural essük esseik

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Further reading

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
  2. (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
  3. (poetic) horse

Declension

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    Declension of ess
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ess essið ess essin
accusative ess essið ess essin
dative essi essinu essum essunum
genitive ess essins essa essanna

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Spar ess (ace of spades)

Etymology

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From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

Noun

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ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)

  1. an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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sparess

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

Noun

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ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)

  1. (card games) an ace
  2. (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete
Usage notes
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  • Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine.[1] The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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  • Ess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

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ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)

  1. (music) E-flat

References

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  1. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)

Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Noun

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ess

  1. Alternative form of es (cataract, rapid) m
  2. Alternative form of es (vessel) n
  3. Alternative form of es (death)
  4. Alternative form of es (ox)

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ess
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ess
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Penobscot

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Etymology

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From Proto-Algonquian *e·hsa (shell; mollusk). Cognate with Unami èhës.

Noun

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ess anim (plural èssak, possessed wətéssomal)

  1. clam, bivalve, mussel, bivalve shell

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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ess n

  1. ace; a card with one mark
  2. ace; someone very proficient
Declension
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Playing cards in Swedish · kort (layout · text)
ess, äss tvåa, två trea, tre fyra femma, fem sexa, sex sjua, sju
åtta nia, nio tia, tio knekt dam kung joker

Etymology 2

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Noun

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ess n

  1. (music) E-flat; the note E♭
Declension
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Anagrams

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Võro

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Noun

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ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English asse, from Old English assa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ess

  1. ass (donkey)

References

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  • 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