même

See also: meme, Meme, mémé, mème, mëmë, and me'me'

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mesme, from Old French mesme, earlier medesme or medisme and meïsme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met + ipse + -issimus. Cognates include Bourguignon moîme, Spanish mismo, Portuguese mesmo and Italian medesimo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛm/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛm
    • Homophones: mème, mèmes, mêmes
  • IPA(key): /mɛːm/ (older, now chiefly Belgium and Canada)
    • (file)
    • (file)
    • Homophone: mêmes

Adverb

même

  1. (used before the article) even
    Même les rois doivent mourir. ― Even kings must die
    On ne peut même pas en faire une. ― We cannot even make one
    J’veux même pas savoir. ― I don't even want to know.

Derived terms

Adjective

même (plural mêmes)

  1. (used before the noun) same
    Je l’ai acheté le même jour
    I bought it the same day
  2. (used after the noun) very
    Ah, la personne même que je voulais voir!
    Ah, the very person I wanted to see!

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Antillean Creole: menm
  • Guianese Creole: menm
  • Haitian Creole: menm
  • Karipúna Creole French: mém
  • Louisiana Creole: même, méme, mem
  • Mauritian Creole: mem
  • Seychellois Creole: menm

See also

Further reading

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French meïsme, mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

même m or f

  1. (Jersey, France) same
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