teter

See also: Teter, téter, and têter

French

Verb

teter

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of téter

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il tète and the third-person singular future indicative il tètera.

Conjugation of teter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	teter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tetant /tə.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		teté /tə.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tète /tɛt/	tètes /tɛt/	tète /tɛt/	tetons /tə.tɔ̃/	tetez /tə.te/	tètent /tɛt/
	imperfect	tetais /tə.tɛ/	tetais /tə.tɛ/	tetait /tə.tɛ/	tetions /tə.tjɔ̃/	tetiez /tə.tje/	tetaient /tə.tɛ/
	past historic2	tetai /tə.te/	tetas /tə.ta/	teta /tə.ta/	tetâmes /tə.tam/	tetâtes /tə.tat/	tetèrent /tə.tɛʁ/
	future	tèterai /tɛ.tʁe/ or /te.tʁe/	tèteras /tɛ.tʁa/ or /te.tʁa/	tètera /tɛ.tʁa/ or /te.tʁa/	tèterons /tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.tʁɔ̃/	tèterez /tɛ.tʁe/ or /te.tʁe/	tèteront /tɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tèterais /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/	tèterais /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/	tèterait /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/	tèterions /tɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /te.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tèteriez /tɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /te.tə.ʁje/	tèteraient /tɛ.tʁɛ/ or /te.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tète /tɛt/	tètes /tɛt/	tète /tɛt/	tetions /tə.tjɔ̃/	tetiez /tə.tje/	tètent /tɛt/
	imperfect2	tetasse /tə.tas/	tetasses /tə.tas/	tetât /tə.ta/	tetassions /tə.ta.sjɔ̃/	tetassiez /tə.ta.sje/	tetassent /tə.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tète /tɛt/	—	tetons /tə.tɔ̃/	tetez /tə.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.ter/, [ˈt̪eːt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ter/, [ˈt̪ɛːt̪er]

Adjective

tēter (feminine tētra, neuter tētrum, comparative tētrior, superlative tēterrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. Alternative form of taeter

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tēter	tētra	tētrum		tētrī	tētrae	tētra
Genitive	tētrī	tētrae	tētrī		tētrōrum	tētrārum	tētrōrum
Dative	tētrō		tētrō		tētrīs
Accusative	tētrum	tētram	tētrum		tētrōs	tētrās	tētra
Ablative	tētrō	tētrā	tētrō		tētrīs
Vocative	tēter	tētra	tētrum		tētrī	tētrae	tētra

References

• “tēter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tēter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tētĕr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,564/1.

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Meriam

Noun

teter

1. leg, foot