mets

See also: Mets, METS, and mêts

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɛts/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛts
  • Homophone: Mets

Noun

mets pl (plural only)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of metastases.
    Mets can be found in multiple organs.

Anagrams

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
genitive metsa 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
Notes

    1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɛ/
  • Audio (Paris)(file)
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophones: 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

Icelandic

Noun

mets

  1. indefinite genitive singular of met
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