Mississippi
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- , Missippi (nonstandard)
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”).
Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi
- A state of the United States.
- 1970, Black Blood & The Chocolate Pickles (lyrics and music), “Mississippi Mud”:
- Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?
- 2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”
- (with the) A major river in the United States that flows from north-central Minnesota into the Gulf of Mexico.
Synonyms
[edit]- (state): the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State (nicknames); MS / MS. / Ms. / Ms, Miss. / MISS. / MISS (abbreviations)
- (river): the Big Muddy (also used for the Missouri), Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Mississippi River, the Muddy Mississippi, Old Man River (nicknames)
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
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Interjection
[edit]Mississippi
- Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
- 1996 September, “Cheers & Jeers”, in Field and Stream, volume 101, page 12:
- Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.
Noun
[edit]Mississippi (plural Mississippis)
- A recitation of “Mississippi” (interjection).
- 1997, George Clark, The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, page 129:
- I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.
- 2008, Tim Winton, chapter 3, in Breath, Picador UK Paperback 2008 edition, page 30:
- We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.
See also
[edit]States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Etymology 2
[edit]Although its current spelling may be derived from that of its much larger American cousin, it is most certainly a corruption of a different indigenous name, as the translation “great water” would not apply to a relatively minor tributary of the Ottawa, definitely the largest river in the area. Instead, the name may originate from Mazinaa[bikinigan]-ziibi, Algonquian for “[painted] image river”, referring to the pictographs found on Mazinaw Lake, though this is by no means proven.
Proper noun
[edit]the Mississippi
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Mississippi River (Ontario) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Mississippi.
Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi (genitive Mississippis)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Mississippi.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmisisipi/, [ˈmis̠iˌs̠ipi]
- IPA(key): /ˈmisːisːipːi/, [ˈmis̠ːis̠ˌs̠ipːi] (or any combination of short/long)
- Rhymes: -ipːi
- Hyphenation(key): Mis‧sis‧sip‧pi
Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
- Mississippi (river)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Mississippi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | Mississippi | — | |
genitive | Mississipin | — | |
partitive | Mississippiä | — | |
illative | Mississippiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Mississippi | — | |
accusative | nom. | Mississippi | — |
gen. | Mississipin | ||
genitive | Mississipin | — | |
partitive | Mississippiä | — | |
inessive | Mississipissä | — | |
elative | Mississipistä | — | |
illative | Mississippiin | — | |
adessive | Mississipillä | — | |
ablative | Mississipiltä | — | |
allative | Mississipille | — | |
essive | Mississippinä | — | |
translative | Mississipiksi | — | |
abessive | Mississipittä | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Mississippi.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mis.sisˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsi.pi/[1]
- Rhymes: -ippi, -ipi
- Hyphenation: Mis‧sis‧sìp‧pi
Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi m
- Mississippi (a river in the United States)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
References
[edit]- ^ Mississippi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi m
- Mississippi (a river in the United States)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mississippi n
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
References
[edit]- “Mississippi”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪpi
- Rhymes:English/ɪpi/4 syllables
- English terms borrowed from Ojibwe
- English terms derived from Ojibwe
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Mississippi, USA
- en:States of the United States
- en:Places in the United States
- English terms with quotations
- en:Rivers in the United States
- English interjections
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Rivers in Canada
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Rivers in Arkansas, USA
- en:Rivers in Illinois, USA
- en:Rivers in Iowa, USA
- en:Rivers in Kentucky, USA
- en:Rivers in Louisiana, USA
- en:Rivers in Minnesota, USA
- en:Rivers in Mississippi, USA
- en:Rivers in Missouri, USA
- en:Rivers in Tennessee, USA
- en:Rivers in Wisconsin, USA
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Mississippi, USA
- da:States of the United States
- da:Places in the United States
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ipːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ipːi/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Mississippi, USA
- fi:States of the United States
- fi:Places in the United States
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ippi
- Rhymes:Italian/ippi/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ipi
- Rhymes:Italian/ipi/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Rivers in the United States
- it:Places in the United States
- it:Mississippi, USA
- it:States of the United States
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Rivers in the United States
- pt:Places in the United States
- pt:Mississippi, USA
- pt:States of the United States
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak neuter nouns
- sk:Mississippi, USA
- sk:States of the United States
- sk:Places in the United States