What is the meaning of -ene?

Forms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.

Forms adjectives and nouns denoting religious groups from personal names.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene.

An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene.

A polymer derived from an alkene.

A single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms.

forms the third-person singular present tense of verbs (conditional mood, indefinite conjugation)

vocative masculine singular of -ēnus

female equivalent of -enis (for female beings)

feminine of -enis (for feminine-gender objects)

female equivalent of -ēns (for female beings)

feminine of -ēns (for feminine-gender objects)

Enclitic form of hem; accusative of hi

used to form the genitive plural of nouns

↑ Hogg, Richard; Fulk, R. D. (2011), A Grammar of Old English, volume 2: Morphology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, §3.9-3.11, pages 73-75

↑ “-en(e), suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 October 2024.

↑ Logan, H[arry] M. (1973), “V. Grammar”, in The dialect of the Life of Saint Katherine: A linguistic study of the phonology and inflections (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 130), The Hague: Mouton, →OCLC, § 40, pages 156-157.

↑ Berndt, Rolf (1968), “Bemerkungen zur geschichtlichen Entwicklung der englischen Sprache”, in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, volume 16, number 2, Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, page 167.

↑ Putter, Ad; Judith, Jefferson; Stokes, Myra (2007), “5. The Structure of the A-Verse”, in Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse (Medium Ævum Monographs: New Series; 26)‎, Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 235.

↑ “-en, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 October 2024.

↑ d'Ardenne, S[imonne] R. T. O. (1961) [1936], “Language”, in Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene (Early English Text Society; 248), London: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, →OCLC, § 64, page 209.

↑ Mustanoja, Tauno F. (1960), “Cases: Genitive”, in A Middle English Syntax (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki; 23), volume I: Parts of Speech, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, page 73; republished at Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, →DOI, →ISBN.

↑ Myers, Sara (26 November 2014), “Chapter 2: Genitive Plural Nouns”, in An investigation of certain aspects of the genitive noun phrase in Middle English (1150-1500) (Thesis)‎, University of Edinburgh, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-08-22, § 2.5.3, page 49.

used to form the inflected infinitive of verbs

↑ Brunner, Karl (1963), Grahame Johnson, transl., An Outline of Middle English Grammar‎, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, translation of Abriss der mittelenglischen Grammatik (in German), →ISBN, →OCLC, § 68, page 71; reprinted 1965.

↑ Mossé, Fernand (1952), “VIII. The Verb”, in James A. Walker, transl., A Handbook of Middle English‎, I. Grammar: Part Two. The Forms, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, translation of Manuel du l'Anglais de Moyen Age des Origines au XIVe Siècle (in French), →OCLC, § 94, page 79.

↑ Jack, George (1992), “The Infinitive in Early Middle English Prose”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎, volume 92, number 3, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 312-314.

↑ Mustanoja, Tauno F. (1960), “Verbs: Infinitive”, in A Middle English Syntax (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki; 23), volume I: Parts of Speech, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, pages 512-513; republished at Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, →DOI, →ISBN.

↑ Jefferson, Judith; Putter, Ad (2005), “The Distribution of Infinitives in -e and -en in Some Middle English Alliterative Poems”, in Medium Ævum‎, volume 74, number 2, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →DOI, →ISSN, page 226.

Denotes a female form of a small, fixed number of nouns.

alternative form of -en (adjectival suffix)

An inflectional suffix forming the definite plural of most masculine and feminine nouns and many neuter nouns, corresponding approximately to English the.

used to form definite plurals for most feminine nouns

alternative form of -enne

inflection of -en: