# mene
## English
### Noun

mene (plural menes)
* The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
** 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
** 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
** 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

### See also

* mene mene tekel upharsin (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* -neme, em- -en, neem

## Angguruk Yali
### Noun

mene
* dog

### References

* Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin manus.

### Noun

mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)
* Alternative form of mãnã

## Cheyenne
### Noun

mene
* berry, small fruit

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, Dutch menen, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]

### Verb

mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)
* to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)
    Hvad mener du med det?
       What do you mean by that?
* to think, hold, consider

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
mener
menes
past
mente
mentes
infinitive
mene
menes
imperative
men
participle
present
menende
past
ment (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
menen :

#### See also

* betyde (to signify; to have been produced with a particular meaning in mind)

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːnə

### Verb

mene
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen

### Anagrams

* meen, neem, neme

## Finnish
### Verb

mene
* inflection of mennä:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

## Lithuanian
### Noun

mene m
* locative singular of menas
* vocative singular of menas

## Mokilese
### Etymology

By surface analysis, -men (animate noun classifier/indefinite marker) +‎ -e (1st person singular demonstrative suffix)

### Demonstrative

mene
* this (animate noun near the speaker)

#### Usage notes

Mene is used only when talking about animate nouns that are nearer to the speaker than to the listener.

#### See also

| Demonstrative formss | General | Animate | Long | Piece | Plural |
| 1st person (near speaker) | oawe | mene | pase | kije | pwiai, pwiak |
| 2nd person (near hearer) | oawen | menen | pasen | kijen | pwian |
| 3rd person (near neither speaker nor hearer) | oawo | meno | paso | kijo | pwiok |

#### References

* Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

## Neapolitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmen(ə)/

### Pronoun

méne
* me (after preposition)

#### Coordinate terms
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* meine (Nynorsk also)

### Etymology

From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.

### Verb

mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)
* to mean
* to think

### References

* “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* myne

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.ne/

### Noun

mene m
* necklace, collar
* ornament, jewel

#### Declension

Strong ja-stem:

#### Related terms

* manu

#### Descendants

* Middle English: myne, mune

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmẽ.ni/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmẽ.ni/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈme.ne/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛ.nɨ/
* Hyphenation: me‧ne

### Noun

mene m (plural menes)
* (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mêne/
* Hyphenation: me‧ne

#### Pronoun

mȅne (Cyrillic spelling ме̏не)
* of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)
* me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”), long form)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mene
* inflection of mena:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmeɲe]

### Noun

mene f
* dative/locative singular of mena

### Noun

mene n
* locative singular of meno

## Spanish
### Verb

mene
* inflection of menar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## West Makian
### Etymology

From me (3rd singular pronoun) +‎ ne (“this”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /me.ˈn̪e/

### Determiner

mene
* (proximal, emphatic) this, these
    Synonyms: ne, nema
    Antonym: mema
    niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana

### Pronoun

mene
* (proximal) this, these
    Antonym: mema
    mene de ti pala ― this is my house

#### Alternative forms

* mine

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as mené)