# ess
## English
### Alternative forms

* es

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĕs, IPA: /ˈɛs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛs

### Noun

ess (plural esses)
* 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.
* 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

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

#### 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)
* To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.

#### Hypernyms

* wind

#### Translations
### 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)
* (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)
    Memme ésse manzich machan biil èrbot.Many things can be done with ash wood.

#### Declension
### 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])
* The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

## Faroese
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
* The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

##### Declension
#### 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)
* (card games) ace

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)
* (music) E-flat

##### Declension
## German
### Verb

ess
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
    Synonym: (standard) esse
* (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
    Synonym: (standard) iss

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛʃː]
* Hyphenation: ess
* Rhymes: -ɛʃː

### Etymology 1

esik +‎ -j

#### Alternative forms

* essél

#### Verb

ess
* second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

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

##### Declension
#### 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: /ɛsː/
* Rhymes: -ɛsː

### Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)
* The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
* (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
* (poetic) horse

#### See also

* í essinu sínu (“in one's element”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

### Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)
* an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)

### References

* “ess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Latin as, via Middle Low German es.

#### Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)
* (card games) an ace
* (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)
* (music) E-flat

### References

* “ess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* ↑ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)

### Anagrams

* -ess, ses

## Old Irish
### Noun

ess
* Alternative form of es (“cataract, rapid”) m
* Alternative form of es (“vessel”) n
* Alternative form of es (“death”)
* Alternative form of es (“ox”)

### Mutation

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)
* clam, bivalve, mussel, bivalve shell

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛsː/
* Rhymes: -ɛsː
* Homophone: S

### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* äss

#### Noun

ess n
* ace; a card with one mark
* ace; someone very proficient

##### 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
* (music) E-flat; the note E♭

##### Related terms

* eiss

### Anagrams

* ses

## Võro
### Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* 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: /ɛs/

### Noun

ess
* 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