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 with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.^[1]

• (rare) mew

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmju/
• Rhymes: -uː

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú (“meu”).

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

• EMU, UME, Ume, emu, mue, ume

• a meu
• (a) njeu

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

Inherited from Old Catalan meu, from Latin 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 meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [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.

  el meu gos ― my dog

• Also used after some prepositions:

  dins meu ― inside me

  davant meu ― in front of me

• mon

Onomatopoeic.

• mèu (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɛw]

meu

1. meow

meu m (plural meus)

1. meow

   Synonym: miol

Borrowed from Latin mēum.

• mèu (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmew]

meu m (plural meus)

1. baldmoney, spignel

• “meu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese medo, inherited from Latin metus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeu̯/
• Rhymes: -eu̯
• Syllabification: meu

meu m (plural meus)

1. fear

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-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) my

   Este é o meu coche ― This is my car

2. (possessive) mine

   Este coche é meu ― This car is mine

meu

1. man; dude; pal; bro

   Éche o que hai, meu. Hai que roelo ― Things are like that, bro. You must face it

   Meu! Fixéchelo! ― Dude! You did it!

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

• “meu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “meu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “meu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “meu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “meu”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• IPA^(key): /møː/

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole
   • 1984, “Sidón”, in Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), 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

   Synonym: mon

• Catalan: meu

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

meu

1. past participle of movoir

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

• (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira, unstressed) IPA^(key): [me]
• Hyphenation: meu

• Audio (São Paulo):

  (file)

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

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. pertaining or belonging to me; my

      o meu computador ― my computer

   4. that serves or interests me; my

      o meu carro ― my car

   6. introduced by me; my

      o herói da minha história ― the hero of my story

   8. merited by me; my

      ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro ― I still haven't received my money

   10. related to me; my

       O meu pai veio me visitar. ― My father came to visit me.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

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

1. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)

meu!

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

			Possessee
			Singular		Plural
			Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Possessor	Singular	First person	meu	minha	meus	minhas
		Second person	teu	tua	teus	tuas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
	Plural	First person	nosso	nossa	nossos	nossas
		Second person	vosso	vossa	vossos	vossas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese

• meŭ — old orthography

Inherited from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

• IPA^(key): /mew/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

From Latin meus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeu/

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeu/

meu (feminine singular mea, plural mei)

1. Alternative form of méiu
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Turrendi a bidda mea [Going back to my town]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 89:

     E canti volthi, o bidda mea natiba,
     soggu giuntu a zirchà
     da te li cosi mei chi v’aggiu pessu

     And how many times, o native town of mine, have I come to you looking for the things that I have lost here

   • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nomme fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎^[2]:

     Lu méu nascimèntu l’abìa dinunziaddu sóru in municipiu

     She [my mother] declared my birth only at the register office

meu m (feminine singular mea, masculine and feminine plural mei)

1. Alternative form of méiu

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese 貓／猫 (māo).

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65