mec

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mec"

Translingual

Symbol

mec

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mara.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mara terms

English

Noun

mec (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium.

   mec liquor

See also

• Mec Art

Anagrams

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

Aromanian

Etymology

Probably from Latin mandūcō.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

mec (third-person singular meche, participle mãcate)

1. alternative form of mãc

Related terms

• mãcari
• mãcat
• nimãcat / nimãcate

Catalan

Etymology

Unknown. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

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

   Synonym: barbamec

2. (regional, derogatory) foolish

Derived terms

• barbamec

Noun

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

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

Further reading

• “mec”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛk/

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Homophone: Mecque

Noun

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

Further reading

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

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mekʲ/

Noun

mec m pl

1. plural of mac (“son”)

Mutation

Mutation of mec

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mec	vec	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old English

Alternative forms

• mē, mic, mehc, mech, meh
• ᛗᛖᚴ (runic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mek/

Pronoun

mec

1. accusative of iċ: me

Usage notes

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

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Noun

mec

1. forest

Inflection

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

Derived terms

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

References

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