ess

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ess"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Central Siberian Yupik with s as a placeholder.

Symbol

ess

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Central Siberian Yupik.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Central Siberian Yupik terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕs, IPA^(key): /ˈɛs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• es

Noun

ess (plural esses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
   • 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone

     these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / the ess / were the sounds / of success

   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

2. Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)

Usage notes

• Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.

Derived terms

• collar of esses
• de-ess
• ess-hook
• long ess
• short ess

Translations

name of the letter S, s

Arabic: إِس m (ʔis) Asturian: ese (ast) Bengali: এস (bn) (es) Catalan: essa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists) Danish: es (da) n Dutch: es (nl) Esperanto: so (eo) Faroese: ess n Finnish: äs (fi), ässä (fi) French: esse (fr) m Galician: ese (gl) m Greek: ες (el) n (es) Hawaiian: sā Hindi: एस (es) Ido: se (io) Indonesian: es (id) Irish: eas (ga), sail (ga) f Japanese: エス (ja) (esu) Korean: 에스 (eseu) Latin: es (la) Malay: es (ms) Marathi: एस (es) Norwegian: Bokmål: ess (no) m Nynorsk: ess m Occitan: èssa f Portuguese: esse (pt) m Russian: эс (ru) n (es) Spanish: ese (es) f Tagalog: es, sa (tl) (Abakada), ese (Abecedario alphabet) Thai: เอส (th) (ées) Turkish: se (tr) Vietnamese: ét (vi), sờ (vi), xờ mạnh, xờ nặng Welsh: ès f

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Translations to be checked

Italian: (please verify) esse (it) m or f

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)

1. To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.

Hypernyms

• wind

Translations

move in an S shape

Etymology 2

Particle

ess

1. (Cornwall, dialect) Yes.
   • 1898, The Cornish Magazine (volume 1, page 64)

     'Big chap, edn' 'a?'
     I thought he was the biggest chap I had ever seen.
     'Ess,' said Corin.

   • 1951, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman (page 64)

     Overheard in Cornwall: 'Oh, ess, diden' ee know I gived up keepin' ducks? They wus allus comin' 'ome lost'.

Anagrams

• SEs, SSE, ses, SES, -ses

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German esche, asche, from Old High German asc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”). Cognate with German Esche, English ash.

Noun

ess m (plural ésse)

1. (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)

   Memme ésse manzich machan biil èrbot.

   Many things can be done with ash wood.

Declension

Declension of ess – 1st declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	ess	de	ésse
accusative	an	in	ess	de	ésse
dative	aname	me	ésse	in	éssen

References

• “ess” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Estonian

Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Faroese

Etymology 1

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

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

Declension

Declension of ess (n11)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Etymology 2

From Danish es, from Middle Low German es, from Old French as, from Latin as.

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (card games) ace

Declension

Declension of ess (n11)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

Etymology 3

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

1. (music) E-flat

Declension

Declension of ess (n11)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ess	essið	ess	essini
accusative	ess	essið	ess	essini
dative	essi	essinum	essum	essunum
genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

German

Verb

ess

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen

   Synonym: (standard) esse

2. (colloquial) singular imperative of essen

   Synonym: (standard) iss

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃː]
• Hyphenation: ess
• Rhymes: -ɛʃː

Etymology 1

esik +‎ -j

Alternative forms

• essél

Verb

ess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Etymology 2

Noun

ess

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ess	essek
accusative	esset	esseket
dative	essnek	esseknek
instrumental	essel	essekkel
causal-final	essért	essekért
translative	essé	essekké
terminative	essig	essekig
essive-formal	essként	essekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	essben	essekben
superessive	essen	esseken
adessive	essnél	esseknél
illative	essbe	essekbe
sublative	essre	essekre
allative	esshez	essekhez
elative	essből	essekből
delative	essről	essekről
ablative	esstől	essektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	essé	esseké
non-attributive possessive – plural	esséi	essekéi

Possessive forms of ess

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	essem	esseim
2nd person sing.	essed	esseid
3rd person sing.	esse	essei
1st person plural	essünk	esseink
2nd person plural	essetek	esseitek
3rd person plural	essük	esseik

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• ess in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛsː/
• Rhymes: -ɛsː

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
2. (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
3. (poetic) horse

Declension

Declension of ess (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ess	essið	ess	essin
accusative	ess	essið	ess	essin
dative	essi	essinu	essum	essunum
genitive	ess	essins	essa	essanna

See also

• í essinu sínu (“in one's element”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)

1. an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)

References

• “ess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.