A Middle English form of ease.A suffix of Latin origin, added to names of places (towns or countries), properly, to form adjectives meaning ‘of or belonging to’ such a place, and hence (the same being used as nouns by omission of the appropriate noun) to signify‘an inhabitant of’ such a place, orthe ‘language’ or ‘dialect of’ such a place, as in Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Milanese, Veronese, Viennese, Berlinese, etc.