mene
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mene"
English
Noun
mene (plural menes)
- 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.
See also
- mene mene tekel upharsin (etymologically unrelated)
Angguruk Yali
References
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156
Aromanian
Cheyenne
Danish
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]
Verb
Conjugation
See also
- betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːnə
Finnish
Verb
mene
- inflection of mennä:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmen(ə)/
Coordinate terms
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) |
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- meine (Nynorsk also)
Etymology
From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.
Verb
mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)
References
- “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme.ne/
Declension
Related terms
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mêne/
- Hyphenation: me‧ne
Pronoun
mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmeɲe]
Spanish
Verb
mene
- inflection of menar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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