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Mear
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Mear
MEAR.
[See Mere.]Definition 2024
mear
mear
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mʲaɾˠ]
Adjective
mear (genitive singular masculine mir, genitive singular feminine mire)
Declension
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | mear | mear¹ | meara³ | |
| Vocative | mir¹ | mear¹ | meara | |
| Genitive | mir¹ | mire | meara | mear |
| Dative | mear² | mear¹; (archaic) mir¹ |
meara³ | |
| Comparative | mire | |||
¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mear | mhear | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō, from Latin medius.
Verb
mear (first-person singular present indicative meio, past participle meado)
- to halve (divide into two)
Conjugation
| Notes:[edit] | ||||||
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) |
|
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | mear | |||||
| Personal | mear | meares | mear | mearmos | meardes | mearem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| meando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | meado | meados | ||||
| Feminine | meada | meadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | meio | meias | meia | meamos | meais | meiam |
| Imperfect | meava | meavas | meava | meávamos | meáveis | meavam |
| Preterite | meei | measte | meou | meamos meámos |
meastes | mearam |
| Pluperfect | meara | mearas | meara | meáramos | meáreis | mearam |
| Future | mearei | mearás | meará | mearemos | meareis | mearão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| mearia | mearias | mearia | mearíamos | mearíeis | meariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | meie | meies | meie | meemos | meeis | meiem |
| Imperfect | measse | measses | measse | meássemos | meásseis | meassem |
| Future | mear | meares | mear | mearmos | meardes | mearem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | - | meia | meie | meemos | meai | meiem |
| Negative (não) | - | meies | meie | meemos | meeis | meiem |
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin meiāre < Latin meiere, present active infinitive of meiō. Compare Portuguese mijar.
Verb
mear (first-person singular present meo, first-person singular preterite meé, past participle meado)
- to piss
- (reflexive) to piss oneself
Conjugation
| infinitive | mear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | meando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | meado | meada | |||||
| plural | meados | meadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes |
|
| present | meo | meastú meásvos |
mea | meamos | meáis | mean | |
| imperfect | meaba | meabas | meaba | meábamos | meabais | meaban | |
| preterite | meé | measte | meó | meamos | measteis | mearon | |
| future | mearé | mearás | meará | mearemos | mearéis | mearán | |
| conditional | mearía | mearías | mearía | mearíamos | mearíais | mearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes |
|
| present | mee | meestú meésvos1 |
mee | meemos | meéis | meen | |
| imperfect (ra) |
meara | mearas | meara | meáramos | mearais | mearan | |
| imperfect (se) |
mease | meases | mease | meásemos | measeis | measen | |
| future | meare | meares | meare | meáremos | meareis | mearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | meatú meávos |
mee | meemos | mead | meen | ||
| negative | no mees | no mee | no meemos | no meéis | no meen | ||
Synonyms
Related terms
- meadero
- meado
- meón
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). Cognate with Dutch meer, Low German and German mehr, English more, Danish mere.
Adjective
mear