• es

• enPR:ĕs,IPA^(key):/ˈɛs/

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• Rhymes:-ɛs

ess (pluralesses)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.
   • 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Eses esses"), inOther Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone

     these esses / change in design / and senses themselves / $ // it's as if / theess / were the sounds / of success

   • 2004, Will Rogers,The Stonking Steps, page170:

     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. (Seeesses)

• Compounds are normally spelledes:es-hook,es-link, etc.

• (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

ess (third-person singular simple presentesses,present participleessing,simple past and past participleessed)

1. Tomove in achangingdirection, forming theshape of aletterS.

• wind

• SEs,SSE,ses,SES,-ses

FromMiddle High Germanesche,asche, fromOld High Germanasc, fromProto-Germanic*askaz(“ash tree”). Cognate withGermanEsche,Englishash.

ess m (pluralésse)

1. (Sette Comuni)ash(tree)

   Memmeésse manzich machan biil èrbot.

   Many things can be done withash wood.

• “ess” inMartalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974)Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.

ess n (genitive singularess, pluraless)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.

• (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

FromDanishes, fromMiddle Low Germanes, fromOld Frenchas, fromLatinas.

ess n (genitive singularess, pluraless)

1. (card games)ace

ess n (genitive singularess, pluraless)

1. (music)E-flat

ess

1. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresent ofessen

   Synonym:(standard)esse

2. (colloquial)singularimperative ofessen

   Synonym:(standard)iss

• IPA^(key):[ˈɛʃː]
• Hyphenation:ess
• Rhymes:-ɛʃː

esik +‎-j

• essél

ess

1. second-personsingularsubjunctivepresentindefinite ofesik

ess

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.

• (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.)

• ess inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

• IPA^(key):/ɛsː/
• Rhymes:-ɛsː

ess n (genitive singularess,nominative pluraless)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.
2. (music)bocal (on abassoon)
3. (poetic)horse

• í essinu sínu(“in one's element”)

FromLatinas, viaMiddle Low Germanes.

ess n (definite singularesset,indefinite pluraless,definite pluralessaoressene)

1. anace(playing card; or someone very proficient)

• “ess” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromLatinas, viaMiddle Low Germanes.

ess n (definite singularesset,indefinite pluraless,definite pluralessa)

2. (card games) anace
3. (idiomatic) ahigh-performing]athlete

• Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine.^[1] The formsessen,essar, andessane were then made obsolete.

• Ess(alternative capitalization)

ess m (definite singularessen,indefinite pluralessar,definite pluralessane)

2. (music)E-flat

• “ess” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• -ess,ses

ess

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

FromProto-Algonquian*e·hsa(“shell; mollusk”). Cognate withUnamièhës.

ess anim (pluralèssak,possessedwətéssomal)

1. clam,bivalve,mussel,bivalveshell

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

• äss

ess n

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

ess n

1. (music)E-flat; the note E♭

• eiss

• ses

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

1. The name of theLatin-script letterS/s.

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

FromMiddle Englishasse, fromOld Englishassa.

• IPA^(key):/ɛs/

ess

1. ass(donkey)

• 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, published1867,page38