mec

mec (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium.

   mec liquor

• Mec Art

• E=mc², cem, CEM, EMC, MCE, cem., CME, ECM

Probably from Latin mandūcō.

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mec first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative meche, past participle mãcate)

1. Alternative form of mãc

• mãcari
• mãcat
• nimãcat / nimãcate

Unknown. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɛk]

mec (feminine meca, masculine plural mecs, feminine plural meques)

1. hairless (of one's face); beardless

   Synonym: barbamec

2. (regional, derogatory) foolish

• barbamec

mec m (plural mecs, feminine meca)

1. beardless man
2. (regional, derogatory) fool, simpleton
3. calf (young male cow)

• “mec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From mac, a shortening of maquereau (“pimp”), from Dutch makelaar (“broker”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛk/

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• Homophone: Mecque

mec m (plural mecs)

1. (slang) guy, fellow, bloke, chap, dude, boyfriend [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: bougre, gars, pelo, type

   Quel mec a volé mon pantalon?

   Which guy stole my pants?

   • 1984, “Paris”, performed by Taxi Girl (sung by Daniel Darc):

     Hé mec ! Mec, comment t’épelles Paris ?

     Hey dude! Dude, how do ya spell Paris?

2. (obsolete, slang) pimp

• “mec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mē, mic, mehc, mech, meh

From Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *me-ge (“me”). Akin to Old High German mih (“me”).

• IPA^(key): /mek/

mec

1. accusative of iċ: me

• Like its counterpart þec, this word was common in the Anglian dialects, but used only occasionally in the West Saxon dialect. The normal accusative form of iċ in the West Saxon dialect was mē: Hē lufaþ mē ("He loves me"), Iċ lufiġe mē ("I love myself").

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

mec

1. forest

Inflection of mec (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	mec
genitive sing.	mecan
partitive sing.	mecad
partitive plur.	mecoid
	singular	plural
nominative	mec	mecad
accusative	mecan	mecad
genitive	mecan	mecoiden
partitive	mecad	mecoid
essive-instructive	mecan	mecoin
translative	mecaks	mecoikš
inessive	mecas	mecoiš
elative	mecaspäi	mecoišpäi
illative	mecaha mecha	mecoihe
adessive	mecal	mecoil
ablative	mecalpäi	mecoilpäi
allative	mecale	mecoile
abessive	mecata	mecoita
comitative	mecanke	mecoidenke
prolative	mecadme	mecoidme
approximative I	mecanno	mecoidenno
approximative II	mecannoks	mecoidennoks
egressive	mecannopäi	mecoidennopäi
terminative I	mecahasai mechasai	mecoihesai
terminative II	mecalesai	mecoilesai
terminative III	mecassai	—
additive I	mecahapäi mechapäi	mecoihepäi
additive II	mecalepäi	mecoilepäi

• mectuda
• čapandmec
• taigamec
• mecižand
• meckana
• mecsiga
• mecživat
• mecančapai
• mecanholitai
• mecankaičii
• mecankazvatuztedo
• mecanröun
• mecantedo
• mecanvedomašin

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “лес”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika