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mene (plural menes)

  1. The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.

    • 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:

      He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

    • 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:

      The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

    • 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:

      The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

mene

  1. dog

From Latin manus.

mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)

  1. Alternative form of mãnã

mene

  1. berry, small fruit

From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).

  • IPA(key): /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]

mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)

  1. to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
    Hvad mener du med det?
    What do you mean by that?
  2. to think, hold, consider
  • betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)

mene

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen

mene

  1. inflection of mennä:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

mene m

  1. locative singular of menas
  2. vocative singular of menas

By surface analysis, -men (animate noun classifier/indefinite marker) +‎ -e (1st person singular demonstrative suffix)

mene

  1. this (animate noun near the speaker)

Mene is used only when talking about animate nouns that are nearer to the speaker than to the listener.

méne

  1. me (after preposition)
Number Person Nominative Accusative Dative Reflexive Possessive Prepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.

mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)

  1. to mean
  2. to think

From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).

mene m

  1. necklace, collar
  2. ornament, jewel

Declension of mene (strong ja-stem)

  • Hyphenation: me‧ne

mene m (plural menes)

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme
  • IPA(key): /mêne/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ne

mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)

  1. of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
  2. me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mene

  1. inflection of mena:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

mene f

  1. dative/locative singular of mena

mene n

  1. locative singular of meno

mene

  1. inflection of menar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

From me (3rd singular pronoun) +‎ ne (“this”).

mene

  1. (proximal, emphatic) this, these
    Synonyms: ne, nema
    Antonym: mema
    niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana

mene

  1. (proximal) this, these
    Antonym: mema
    mene de ti pala ― this is my house
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[1], Pacific linguistics (as mené)