"-ess" meaning in English

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Suffix

IPA: /ɛs/, /ɪs/, /əs/ Forms: -esses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English -esse, borrowed from Old French -esse, from Late Latin -issa, from Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa). Displaced Old English -en (feminine suffix of nouns). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-esse}} Middle English -esse, {{der|en|fro|-esse}} Old French -esse, {{der|en|LL.|-issa}} Late Latin -issa, {{der|en|grc|-ισσα}} Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa), {{noncog|ang|-en|pos=feminine suffix of nouns}} Old English -en (feminine suffix of nouns) Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|plural|-esses|cat2=productive suffixes|cat3=noun-forming suffixes}} -ess (plural -esses)
  1. Used to form female equivalents. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -a, -ette, -ine, -ress, she-, -trix Translations (female suffix): onjë [feminine] (Albanian), -eshë [feminine] (Albanian), ـَة (-a) [feminine] (Arabic), -ঈ [-i] (Bengali), -ইনী (-ini) (Bengali), -নী (-ni) (Bengali), -আ (-a) (Bengali), -ez [feminine] (Breton), (ma.) (Burmese), 女- (nǚ-) (Chinese Mandarin), 母- (mǔ-) (Chinese Mandarin), -ῐσσᾰ (-issa) [feminine] (Classical Greek), -inde (Danish), -in [feminine] (Dutch), -esse [feminine] (Dutch), -ino (Esperanto), -tar (Finnish), -tär (Finnish), -esse [feminine] (French), -euse [feminine] (French), -e [feminine] (French), -esa [feminine] (Galician), -in (-trix f, -öse f) [feminine] (German), -ה (-a) (Hebrew), -ית (-it) (Hebrew), -नी (-nī) (Hindi), -nő (Hungarian), -ino (Ido), -essa (Interlingua), -a (Interlingua), ban- (Irish), -essa [feminine] (Italian), -trīx [feminine] (Latin), -issa (english: borrowed from Greek) [Late-Latin, feminine] (Latin), -ισσα (-issa) [feminine] (Modern Greek), -êsse [feminine] (Norman), -inne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), -ske [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), -esse [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), -en [feminine] (Old English), -ka [feminine] (Polish), -a [feminine] (Portuguese), -esa [feminine] (Portuguese), -iță [feminine] (Romanian), -easă [feminine] (Romanian), -ка (-ka) [feminine] (Russian), -ша (-ša) [feminine] (Russian), -ица (-ica) [feminine] (Russian), -ница (-nica) [feminine] (Russian), -и́са (-ísa) [feminine] (Russian), -е́сса (-éssa) [feminine] (Russian), (-a) [feminine] (Russian), -чица (-čica) [feminine] (Russian), -иня (-inja) [feminine] (Russian), -ыня (-ynja) [feminine] (Russian), -и́ха (-íxa) [feminine] (Russian), -ья (-ʹja) [feminine] (Russian), -у́ха (-úxa) [feminine] (Russian), -inna (Swedish), -essa (Swedish), -ska (Swedish), ji- (Volapük), -es [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. The wife of. Tags: morpheme Translations (wife of): -né (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en--ess-en-suffix-en:wife Disambiguation of 'wife of': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix

Etymology: From Old French -esse, from Latin -itia. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|-esse}} Old French -esse, {{der|en|la|-itia}} Latin -itia Head templates: {{head|en|suffix}} -ess
  1. Used to form nouns from adjectives. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--ess-en-suffix-BWePpDl5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "-issa",
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          "word": "ban-"
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          "word": "-trīx"
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          "sense": "female suffix",
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          "type": "example"
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      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "မ"
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      "sense": "female suffix",
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      "sense": "female suffix",
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      "word": "-inde"
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      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "-esa"
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    {
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      "sense": "female suffix",
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      "code": "he",
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      "sense": "female suffix",
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      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "-it",
      "sense": "female suffix",
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      "word": "-ino"
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      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "-essa"
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    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "-a"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "ban-"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-essa"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "-trīx"
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    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "-êsse"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "-ske"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "-esse"
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "-ka"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "-a"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "-esa"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "word": "-easă"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "-ka",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "-ка"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-ša",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "-ша"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-ica",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "-и́са"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-éssa",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-е́сса"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-a",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-а"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-čica",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-чица"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-inja",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-иня"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-ynja",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ыня"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-íxa",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-и́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-ʹja",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ья"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-úxa",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-у́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "-inna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "-essa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "-ska"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "word": "ji-"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "female suffix",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-es"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "wife of",
      "word": "-né"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ess"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English noun-forming suffixes",
    "English suffixes",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "-esse"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French -esse",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-itia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin -itia",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French -esse, from Latin -itia.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ess",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form nouns from adjectives."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ess"
}

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