mec

mec (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium.

   mec liquor

• Mec Art

• CME, ECM, EMC, E=mc², cem

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, Valencian) [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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mec m (plural mecs)

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

   Synonyms: bougre, gars, 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

• 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]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika