Turkish

Proper noun

Ese

1. A male given name

English

Noun

ese

1. (obsolete) ease; pleasure
   • 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale:

     So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure,

   • William Langland, Piers Plowman:

     For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
     It is in cloistre or in scole.

Etymology 2

From Mexican Spanish ese ‎(“dude”).

Noun

ese ‎(plural eses)

1. (US) dude, man. (Usually used vocatively.)

Chuukese

Etymology

e- +‎ -se

Pronoun

ese

1. he, she, it does not

Adjective

ese

1. he, she, it is not
2. he, she, it was not

Related terms

Estonian

Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century, but compare Finnish esine.

Noun

ese ‎(genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item, that

Declension

See also

• asi
• eesmärk
• objekt
• sihitis

Karitiâna

Noun

ese

1. water

References

• Number and the mass/count distinction in Karitiana

Latin

Participle

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /isi/ or IPA^(key): /iʃi/

Noun

ese

1. light brown-gray

Pohnpeian

Verb

ese

1. (transitive) to know

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'ese/

Etymology 1

Noun

ese f ‎(plural eses)

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

Etymology 2

From Latin ipse.

Adjective

ese m ‎(feminine esa, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) that

Interjection

ese

1. (Mexico, informal) hello

Pronoun

ese m ‎(feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése

Usage notes

• the unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context

See also