mess

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɛs/ Rhymes: -ɛs === Etymology 1 === Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”). ==== Noun ==== mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes) a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4: No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya? Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder (colloquial) a large quantity or number (Northern England, Appalachia) a sufficient quantity of food for a meal (euphemistic) excrement. (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed) (transitive, often with "up") To make untidy or dirty. To make soiled by defecating. To make soiled by ejaculating. (transitive, often with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. Charles Dickens, quoted in: 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens Yet I was not sorry that the creature found the loophole for escape. The officers had taken him illegally without any warrant; and really they messed it all through, quite facetiously. (intransitive) To interfere. ===== Translations ===== ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”). ==== Noun ==== mess (plural messes) (obsolete) Mass; a church service. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time. c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel a mess of pottage (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table. A building or room in which mess is eaten. (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner). (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking. (collective) A group of iguanas. Synonym: slaughter (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Portuguese: messe ===== Translations ===== ===== Further reading ===== Mess (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ==== Verb ==== mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed) (intransitive) To take meals with a mess. (intransitive) To belong to a mess. (intransitive) To eat (with others). 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18: Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations... (transitive) To supply with a mess. === Further reading === Mess (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === “mess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs, sems == Hungarian == === Alternative forms === messél, metssz, metsszél === Etymology === metsz +‎ -j (personal suffix) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈmɛʃː] Hyphenation: mess Rhymes: -ɛʃː === Verb === mess second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of metsz == Maltese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɛs/ Rhymes: -ɛs === Etymology 1 === From Arabic مَسَّ (massa). ==== Verb ==== mess (imperfect jmiss, past participle mimsus, verbal noun mess) (transitive) to touch (figurative) to touch, to affect (auxiliary) Used to indicate duty or obligation: ought; should Missek għedtli. ― You should have told me. (auxiliary) Used in conditional or counterfactual statements to show relief that one didn't do something that would have led to a bad or regrettable result. ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === From Arabic مَسّ (mass). ==== Noun ==== mess m (instance noun messa) verbal noun of mess: touch == Manx == === Etymology === From Old Irish mess (“nuts”), from Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). Cognate with Irish meas (“fruit, mast”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mes/ === Noun === mess m (genitive singular mess, plural messyn) (botany) fruit ==== Derived terms ==== messghart === Mutation === == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === mess imperative of messe == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === mes === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmʲes/ === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Celtic *messus (“judgement”), from Proto-Indo-European *med-. ==== Noun ==== mess m (genitive messa, nominative plural mesai) verbal noun of midithir judgment For quotations using this term, see Citations:mess. ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Irish: meas Scottish Gaelic: meas ==== Further reading ==== Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). ==== Noun ==== mess m (genitive messa) (collective) tree nuts, mast ===== Descendants ===== Middle Irish: mes, mess Irish: meas Manx: mess Scottish Gaelic: meas ==== Further reading ==== Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language === Mutation === == Swedish == === Etymology === Clipping of sms. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛsː === Noun === mess n (colloquial) text message Synonym: sms ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== messa === References === “mess”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “mess”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) == Vilamovian == === Etymology === From Middle High German messinc, from Proto-Germanic *masjinga-, of uncertain ultimate origin. Perhaps derived from Ancient Greek Μοσσύνοικοι (Mossúnoikoi, “Mossynoeci”), the name of an ancient people connected with metallurgy; or alternatively from Latin massa (“lump (of metal)”). === Noun === mess n brass ==== Related terms ==== messera