mets

See also: Mets, METS, and mêts

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛts/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛts
• Homophone: Mets

Noun

mets pl (plural only)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of metastases.

   Mets can be found in multiple organs.

Anagrams

• EMTs, STEM, Smet, Stem, TEMs, stem

Catalan

Verb

mets

1. second-person singular present indicative of metre

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Noun

mets (genitive metsa, partitive metsa)

1. forest

Declension

Declension of mets (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mets	metsad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	metsa
genitive			metsade
partitive		metsa	metsi metsasid
illative		metsa metsasse	metsadesse metsisse
inessive		metsas	metsades metsis
elative		metsast	metsadest metsist
allative		metsale	metsadele metsile
adessive		metsal	metsadel metsil
ablative		metsalt	metsadelt metsilt
translative		metsaks	metsadeks metsiks
terminative		metsani	metsadeni
essive		metsana	metsadena
abessive		metsata	metsadeta
comitative		metsaga	metsadega

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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• Homophones: mai, maie, maies, mais, met

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French més, from Latin missum. The form was later influenced by the underlying mettre.

Noun

mets m (plural mets)

1. (cooking) dish

   Synonym: plat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mets

1. inflection of mettre:
   1. first/second-person singular indicative present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Noun

mets

1. indefinite genitive singular of met