ess

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ess"

English

Alternative forms

• es

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕs, IPA^(key): /ˈɛs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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

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

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

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

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 Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: 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

Spar ess (ace of spades)

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

sparess

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

Noun

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

2. (card games) an ace
3. (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete

Usage notes

• Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Ess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)

2. (music) E-flat

References

• “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• -ess, ses

Old Irish

Noun

ess

1. Alternative form of es (“cataract, rapid”) m
2. Alternative form of es (“vessel”) n
3. Alternative form of es (“death”)
4. Alternative form of es (“ox”)

Mutation

Mutation of ess

radical	lenition	nasalization
ess (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ess

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

Penobscot

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *e·hsa (“shell; mollusk”). Cognate with Unami èhës.

Noun

ess anim (plural èssak, possessed wətéssomal)

1. clam, bivalve, mussel, bivalve shell

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛsː/
• Rhymes: -ɛsː
• Homophone: S

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• äss

Noun

ess n

1. ace; a card with one mark
2. ace; someone very proficient

Declension

Declension of ess

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ess	ess
	definite	esset	essets
plural	indefinite	ess	ess
	definite	essen	essens

See also

Playing cards in Swedish · kort (layout · text)
ess, äss	tvåa, två	trea, tre	fyra	femma, fem	sexa, sex	sjua, sju
åtta	nia, nio	tia, tio	knekt	dam	kung	joker

Etymology 2

Noun

ess n

1. (music) E-flat; the note E♭

Declension

Declension of ess

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ess	ess
	definite	esset	essets
plural	indefinite	ess	ess
	definite	essen	essens

Related terms

• eiss

Anagrams

• ses

Võro

Noun

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

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English asse, from Old English assa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/

Noun

ess

1. ass (donkey)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38