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English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?um (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.

Alternative forms

• (rare) mew

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mju/

Noun

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon m??wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

Noun

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

References

Anagrams

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a meu
• (a) njeu

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

Related terms

• miui
• nju

See also

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mew/

Pronoun

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• Also used after some prepositions:

Declension

See also

• mon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?w/

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)

Further reading

• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician and Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mew/, /?m?w/

Pronoun

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) my

2. (possessive) mine

Interjection

meu

1. man; dude

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (môlos), ????? (mólos), itself from Latin m?l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø?/

Noun

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

   Synonym: mon

Descendants

• Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

meu

1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mew/
• Hyphenation: meu

Pronoun

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   4. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   6. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   8. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   10. Related to me; my.

       Meu pai veio me visitar.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Interjection

meu!

2. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• me? (old orthography)

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Determiner

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

Declension

Pronoun

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

• lor
• nostru
• s?u, lui
• t?u
• vostru

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu/

Pronoun

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

Related terms

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zou

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese ? (m?o).

Noun

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Clippings.

Adjective

med (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

Noun

med (plural meds)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

Etymology 2

Verb

med

1. (Britain, dialect) may; might
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

Anagrams

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t]
• Hyphenation: med
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m inan

1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)

   Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

Derived terms

• mazat n?komu med kolem huby
• medov?
• medovina
• medový
• nebýt žádný med

Related terms

• medv?d m

Further reading

• med in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• med in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/, [m?ð]

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by
3. including, counting

References

• “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Etymology 4

Preposition

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth?, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
• Homophone: me

Preposition

med

1. with (in the company of)

2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Noun

med m

1. honey

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: med

Further reading

• “med”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mi?du, from Proto-Germanic *mizd?, from Proto-Indo-European *misd?ós. Cognate with Old Frisian mede, Old Saxon meda, Old High German miata (German Miete (“rent”)); and with Ancient Greek ?????? (misthós, “reward”), archaic Russian ???? (mzda, “payment, bribe”), and Slovak mzda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?d/

Noun

m?d f

1. reward

Declension

Descendants

• English: meed

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *med?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive medai)

1. honey

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u. Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek ???? (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek ???? (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi ??? (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu ????? (“honey”), Persian ??? (“wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mê?d/

Noun

m?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. honey

Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of me?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) between
2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive singular medu, nominative plural medy, genitive plural medov, declension pattern of dub)

1. honey (the sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• med in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *me?u, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Preposition

med

1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d m inan

1. honey

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d f

1. brass

Inflection

Further reading

• “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?(d)/, /m??(d)/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mædh, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Adverb

med

1. also, as well, too

Derived terms

• See preposition, below

Synonyms

• också

Preposition

med

1. with, together with, in the company of

2. including, containing, with; in addition to

3. by, with; by means of

4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)

5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")

Antonyms

• mot
• utan

Derived terms

Related terms

• genom
• medelst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Noun

med c

1. a runner (device upon which something slides)
2. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)

Declension

Alternative forms

• mede

Synonyms

• glidskena
• skridskoskena

Derived terms

• kälkmed
• meddon
• medspår
• slädmed
• sparkmed

References

• med in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dem