meu

Meu

From Latin mēum (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word which is only attested a 14th cent. example and later in 1568.[1]

• (rare) mew

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmju/

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

• (Meum athamanticum): meon, meum; baldmoney, maldmoney; spignel, spicknel, spiknel, spikenel; bearwort, bear-wort, bear's wort

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• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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• Meu

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The minister of finance of Dahomey

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

• a meu
• (a) njeu

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Daco-Romanian meu.

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

• miui
• nju

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmew/

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• mon

Inherited from Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmew/, /ˈmɛw/

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) mine
2. (possessive) my

meu

1. man (used to place emphasis upon something or someone)

   Éche o que hai, meu. Hai que roelo.

   Things are like that, my friend. You must endure it.

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

From Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos), μόλος (mólos), itself from Latin mōlēs.

• IPA^(key): /møː/

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole
   • 1984, Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), “Sidón”, in Crêuza de mâ [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:

     E dòpp'i færi in gôa, i færi da prixón / e 'nte ferîe a seménsa velenóza da deportaçión / perché de nòstro, da-a cianûa a-o meu / no peu ciù crésce ni èrbo, ni spîga, ni figeu

     And after the iron in the throat, the iron of the prison, and the poisonous seed of deportation inside the wounds, because no tree, or spike, or boy of ours is allowed to grow any longer, from the plain to the pier

From Latin meum.

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

• mon

• Catalan: meu

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

meu

1. past participle of movoir

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmew/
• Hyphenation: meu

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   1. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   2. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   3. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   4. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   5. Related to me; my.

      Meu pai veio me visitar.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:meu.

meu!

1. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
2. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:meu.

• meŭ (old orthography)

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

• IPA^(key): /mew/

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

• lor
• nostru
• său, lui
• tău
• vostru