mec

mec

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mara.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mara terms

mec (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium.

   mec liquor

• Mec Art

• E=mc², cem, CEM, EMC, MCE, cem., CME, ECM

Probably from Latin mandūcō.

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mec first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative meche, past participle mãcate)

1. alternative form of mãc

• mãcari
• mãcat
• nimãcat / nimãcate

Unknown. First attested in the 14th century.

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

mec (feminine meca, masculine plural mecs, feminine plural meques)

1. hairless (of one's face); beardless

   Synonym: barbamec

2. (regional, derogatory) foolish

• barbamec

mec m (plural mecs, feminine meca, feminine plural meques)

1. beardless man
2. (regional, derogatory) fool, simpleton
3. calf (young male cow)

• “mec”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mec”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From mac, a shortening of maquereau (“pimp”), from Dutch makelaar (“broker”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛk/

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• Homophone: Mecque

mec m (plural mecs)

1. (slang) guy, fellow, bloke, chap, dude, boyfriend [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: bougre, gars, pelo, type

   Quel mec a volé mon pantalon?

   Which guy stole my pants?

   • 1984, “Paris”, performed by Taxi Girl (sung by Daniel Darc):

     Hé mec ! Mec, comment t'épelles Paris ?

     Hey dude! Dude, how do ya spell Paris?

2. (obsolete, slang) pimp

• “mec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /mekʲ/

mec m pl

1. plural of mac (“son”)

• mē, mic, mehc, mech, meh
• ᛗᛖᚴ (runic)

From Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *me-ge (“me”). Akin to Old High German mih (“me”).

• IPA^(key): /mek/

mec

1. accusative of iċ: me

• Like its counterpart þec, this word was common in the Anglian dialects, but used only occasionally in the West Saxon dialect; it was however the original accusative form. The typical accusative form of iċ in the West Saxon dialect was mē, which was originally only dative: Hē lufaþ mē ("He loves me"), Iċ lufiġe mē ("I love myself").

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

mec

1. forest

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лес”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika