ese

From Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛˌseɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛseɪ
• Homophone: essay

ese (plural eses)

1. (US) dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).

Cf. ease.

ese (plural eses)

1. Obsolete spelling of ease.

• “ese”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• SEE, See, ees, see

• IPA^(key): /es̺e/ [e.s̺e]
• Rhymes: -es̺e
• Hyphenation: e‧se

ese inan

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

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

e- +‎ -se

ese

1. he, she, it does not

ese

1. he, she, it is not
2. he, she, it was not

		Present and past tense	Negative tense	Future	Negative future	Distant future	Negative determinate
Singular	First person	ua	use	upwe	usap	upwap	ute
	Second person	ka, ke	kose, kese	kopwe, kepwe	kosap, kesap	kopwap, kepwap	kote, kete
	Third person	a	ese	epwe	esap	epwap	ete
Plural	First person	aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive)	ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive)	aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive)	ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive)	aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive)	aute (exclusive) site (inclusive)
	Second person	oua	ouse	oupwe	ousap	oupwap	oute
	Third person	ra, re	rese	repwe	resap	repwap	rete

Coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century. Compare Finnish esine.

ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item

Declension of ese (ÕS type 4/ase, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ese	esemed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	eseme
genitive			esemete
partitive		eset	esemeid
illative		esemesse	esemetesse esemeisse
inessive		esemes	esemetes esemeis
elative		esemest	esemetest esemeist
allative		esemele	esemetele esemeile
adessive		esemel	esemetel esemeil
ablative		esemelt	esemetelt esemeilt
translative		esemeks	esemeteks esemeiks
terminative		esemeni	esemeteni
essive		esemena	esemetena
abessive		esemeta	esemeteta
comitative		esemega	esemetega

• asi
• objekt

From Old Galician-Portuguese esse, from Latin ipse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈesɪ/

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ese m (feminine singular esa, masculine plural eses, feminine plural esas, neuter iso)

1. that

• “ese”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

ese

1. water

• Number and the mass/count distinction in Karitiana

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

Borrowed from Old French aise, eise.

• eyse, eise, ase, ayse, aise, yese

ese

1. Physical comfort, or that which is conducive thereto.
2. Material prosperity; profit.
3. Good health.
4. Spiritual comfort; equanimity, tranquility.
   • 1370-90, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
     It is in cloistre or in scole.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. Enjoyment, pleasure, delight.
6. Ease, facility.
7. The opportunity by which something is possible; means, ability.
   • c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎^[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 78, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     […] hƿen þe delit i þe luſt iſ igan ſe ouerforð · þet ter nere nan ƿiðſeggunge ȝef þer ƿere eiſe to fulle þe dede ·

     […] when the delight taken in the craving has gone so far that there will be no denying it if there's any way whatsoever to do it.

8. The mitigation or alleviation of discomfort, burden or suffering.
9. (law) The right to utilize the property of a neighbour for certain ends; easement.

• (comfort): esynesse
• (ease): facilite

• English: ease

• “ese, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 August 2018.

ese

1. Alternative form of eise

• IPA^(key): /isi/ or IPA^(key): /iʃi/

ese

1. light brown-gray

• esa (a-infinitive)
• (non-standard since 2012) æsa, æse

From Germanic, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *yes- (“to well, seethe, foam, ferment”). Compare Icelandic æsa, from Proto-Germanic *jōsijaną.

ese (present tense esar, past tense esa, past participle esa, passive infinitive esast, present participle esande, imperative ese/es)

1. (intransitive) to swell, seethe, ferment
2. (intransitive, by extension) to grow larger
3. (impersonal) to devolve, be stirred, riled up

   Synonym: ulme

• (with particle): ese opp; ese ut

• ase
• jest, jester

• “ese” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.se/, [ˈeː.ze]

ēse

1. dative singular of ōs

ese

1. (transitive) to know

• IPA^(key): /ˈese/ [ˈe.se]

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• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: e‧se

ese f (plural eses)

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

Inherited from Latin ipse.

ese m sg (plural esos, feminine esa, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) that

   Synonym: (poetic or archaic) aquese

ese

1. (Mexico, informal) hello

ese m (feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése

• The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.

• “ese”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish ese, the Spanish name of the letter S/s.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔese/ [ˈʔɛː.sɛ]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: e‧se

ese (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter S/s, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) es, (in the Abakada alphabet) sa

• “ese”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• See

• IPA^(key): /ē.sé/

esé

1. (rare) hippopotamus

   Synonym: erinmi

• IPA^(key): /è.sē/

èse

1. (rare) cat

   Synonyms: ológbò, ológìní, músù

   irọ́ ni, ẹ̀yìn èse kì í kanlẹ̀ ― It is impossible, a cat can never land on its back

From è- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ sè (“To dye, to paint”).

• IPA^(key): /è.sè/

èsè

1. dye; (in particular) purple dye

   ó sè é ní èsè ― She dyed it purple

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

èsè

1. provision

IPA^(key): /ē.sè/

esè

1. (rare) shea butter

   Synonym: òrí

IPA^(key): /è.sè/

èsè

1. (Ijebu) yellow yam, dioscorea cayenensis

   Synonym: àgọ́ndọ̀n-ọ́n (Ìjẹ̀bú)

2. (Ijebu, by extension) yellow