-met
See also: met, Met, MET, mét, mèt, mệt, and met-
Latin
Etymology
Probably related to the ablative form of the first person singular personal pronoun, egō, which was mēt/mēd in Old Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /met/, [mɛt]
Suffix
-met
- an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns, it is usually followed by "ipse"
- ego meaning "I" → egomet meaning "I myself"
- mihi the dative of ego → mihimet meaning "to myself"
- me the ablative and accusative of ego → memet meaning "me myself" or "myself"
- nos meaning "we" → nosmet meaning "ourselves"
- nobis the ablative and dative of nos → nobismet meaning "to/in/with ourselves"
- tu meaning "you" + te the ablative and accusative of tu → tutemet meaning "you yourself"
- tibi the dative of tu → tibimet meaning "to you yourself"
- vos meaning "you (people)" or "ye" → vosmet meaning "yourselves"
- mea meaning "my" or "mine" → meamet meaning "my very own"
- se → semet meaning "himself"
- sua → suamet meaning "his very own"
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latin_words_suffixed_with_-met' title='Category:Latin words suffixed with -met'>Latin words suffixed with -met</a>
- *metipse (Vulgar Latin)
- *metipsimus (Vulgar Latin)
See also
- -pte