LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
determinerfirst/second-declension determiner, with locative

meus

meus (feminine mea, neuter meum)
Classical[ˈme.ʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈmɛː.us]
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Meaning

  1. determinerpossessivewith locativemy, mine
    Mitte hunc meā grātiā.Let this man alone for my sake.

In the readers how our graded readers gloss it

my, mine
meus — in Seneca, ch. I

Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativemeusmeameum
genitivemeīmeaemeī
dativemeōmeaemeō
accusativemeummeammeum
ablativemeōmeāmeō
vocativemī
mee
meameum
locativemeīmeaemeī
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativemeīmeaemea
genitivemeōrummeārummeōrum
dativemeīs
mīs
meīs
mīs
meīs
mīs
accusativemeōsmeāsmea
ablativemeīs
mīs
meīs
mīs
meīs
mīs
vocativemeīmeaemea
locativemeīs
mīs
meīs
mīs
meīs
mīs

mĕus, a, um (voc. meus for mi:
I. proice tela manu, sanguis meus, Verg. A. 6, 835: Lolli meus, Sid. Ep. 1, 9; and: domine meus, id. ib. 4, 10; gen. plur meūm for meorum: pietas majorum meūm, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 66: meapte, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 8: meopte, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 77: meāmet, id. Poen. 1, 3, 37; Sall. J. 85, 24; archaic form MIVS: MIEIS MORIBVS, Monum. Scip. in Inscr. Orell. 554; and mis = meis: ingens cura'st mis concordibus aequiperare, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 955 P.; cf. Vahl. Enn. Ann. v. 131, p. 21), pron. possess. [me], my, mine, belonging to me, my own: haec ero dicam meo, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 304: carnifex, Ter. And. 4, 1, 27: discriptio, made by me, Cic. Sen. 17, 59: crimen, against me, what I am blamed for, App. Mag. 10 init. p. 279: non mea est simulatio, is not my way, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 34: tempestate meā, in my day, Juv. 4, 140: meus sum, I am myself, in my right senses: pavidum gelidumque trementi Corpore, vixque meum firmat deus, Ov. M. 3, 689: quod quidem ego facerem, nisi plane esse vellem meus, quite independent, Cic. Leg. 2, 7, 17: vindicta postquam meus a praetore recessi, my own master, free, Pers. 5, 88: meus est, he is mine, I have him, have caught him, he is in my power: meus hic est: hamum vorat, Plaut. Curc. 3, 61: meus illic homost, id. Mil. 2, 3, 63; id. Ps. 1, 3, 147; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 70: hic homo meus est, id. Ps. 4, 7, 21: vicimus: en! meus est, exclamat Nāis, Ov. M. 4, 356: meus, my, my own, my dear, my beloved: Nero meus mirificas apud me tibi gratias agit, Cic. Fam. 13, 64, 1: civis, my fellow-citizen, Juv. 12, 121.—With apposite gen.: cui nomen meum absentis honori fuisset, Cic. Planc. 10, 26: quod meum factum dictumve consulis gravius quam tribuni audistis? Liv. 7, 40, 9. ut mea defunctae molliter ossa cubent, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 108.—Absol.: mĕi, ōrum, m., my friends or relatives, my adherents, my followers: ego meorum solus sum meus, Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 21: flamma extrema meorum, Verg. A. 2, 431: meus homo, or simply meus, i. e. this silly fellow of mine: homo meus se in pulpito Totum prosternit, Phaedr. 5, 7, 32: at legatus meus ad emendum modo proficiscitur, Auct. Decl. Quint. 12, 18: stupor, this blockhead of mine, Cat. 17, 21: mea and mea tu, my love, my darling: mea Pythias, Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 14: mea tu, id. Ad. 3, 1, 2: o mea, Ov. M. 14, 761.—Voc.: mi, my dear! my beloved! o mi Aeschine, o mi germane! Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 4.—With the fem.: mi soror, App. M. 5, p. 166, 3; 4, p. 155, 6; 8, p. 205, 2: mi domina, Hier. Ep. 22, 1: mi catella, id. ib. 2: mi virgo, id. ib. 17.—In plur.: mi homines, mi spectatores, dear people, good spectators, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 8.—Neutr. absol.: mĕum, i, n., mine: quod subrupuisti meum, my property, i. e. my daughter, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 29; cf. meam, id. ib. v. 14; 26: meum est, it is my affair, my concern, my duty, my custom: non est mentiri meum, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38: puto esse meum, quid sentiam, exponere, Cic. Fam. 6, 5.—
2. Plur.: fundite quae mea sunt, cuncta, Juv. 12, 37.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂der. Proto-Italic *meos Archaic Latin meos Latin meus Inherited from Archaic Latin meos, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Descendants
  • Catalanmeufrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmevafrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmeusfrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmevesfrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmonfrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmafrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmosfrom Old Catalan meu
  • Catalanmesfrom Old Catalan meu
  • Frenchmon
  • Frenchma

Quick answers

What does meus mean in Latin?
meus, a determiner, means “my, mine”.
How do you pronounce meus?
In classical Latin, [ˈme.ʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈmɛː.us].