metas

See also: metás and metáš

English

Noun

metas

1. plural of meta

Anagrams

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, STEAM, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, satem, stame, steam, tames, teams

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmetas]
• Rhymes: -etas
• Hyphenation: me‧tas

Verb

metas

1. present of meti

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetas/

Verb

metas

1. present of metar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.taːs/, [ˈmeːt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tas/, [ˈmɛːt̪äs]

Noun

mētās f

1. accusative plural of mēta

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *métas. Cognate with Latvian męts (“time, period”), Old Prussian mettan (“year”).

Noun

mẽtas m (plural mẽtai) stress pattern 2

1. time, period
2. (in the plural) year

Declension

declension of metas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	mẽtas	mẽtai
genitive (kilmininkas)	mẽto	mẽtų
dative (naudininkas)	mẽtui	mẽtams
accusative (galininkas)	mẽtą	metùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	metù	mẽtais
locative (vietininkas)	metè	mẽtuose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	mẽte	mẽtai

Further reading

• “metas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
• “metas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
• Derksen, Rick (2015), “mẽtas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 314

Portuguese

Verb

metas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of meter

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetas/ [ˈme.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -etas
• Syllabification: me‧tas

Etymology 1

Noun

metas f pl

1. plural of meta

Etymology 2

Verb

metas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of meter

Swedish

Verb

metas

1. passive infinitive of meta
2. present passive of meta

Anagrams

• mesta, teams, temas