Mee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mee"

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer.
• As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee.
• As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus.
• (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

Proper noun

Mee (countable and uncountable, plural Mees)

1. A surname.
2. A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.

Anagrams

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin Maius, from the Roman goddess Maia, the Italic goddess of growth. Cognate with English May, German Mai, Dutch maj, Icelandic maí, West Frisian maaie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Homophone: mee

Noun

Mee m (plural Meeën)

1. May

See also

Gregorian calendar months: Méint am Gregorianesche Kalenneredit

• Januar
• Februar
• Mäerz
• Abrëll
• Mee
• Juni
• Juli
• August
• September
• Oktober
• November
• Dezember

Further reading

• Mee in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish Mide (“Meath”), most likely from mide (“middle, centre”).

Proper noun

Yn Vee f

1. Meath

Synonyms

• Coontae ny Mee

Derived terms

• Yn Eearvee