metar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "metar"

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• miater

Etymology

From Latin mittere.

Verb

metar

1. to put, place

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French mettre, Italian mettere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈtar/

Verb

metar (present metas, past metis, future metos, conditional metus, imperative metez)

1. (transitive) to put on, don (clothing, ornaments)

   Antonym: desmetar

   Metez plu bela kamizo, la gasti arivos balde!

   Put on a better shirt, the guests will arrive soon!

Conjugation

Conjugation of metar

		present		past		future
infinitive		metar		metir		metor
tense		metas		metis		metos
conditional		metus		—		—
imperative		metez		—		—
adjective active participle		metanta		metinta		metonta
adverbial active participle		metante		metinte		metonte
nominal active participle	singular	metanto		metinto		metonto
	plural	metanti		metinti		metonti
adjective passive participle		metata		metita		metota
adverbial passive participle		metate		metite		metote
nominal passive participle	singular	metato		metito		metoto
	plural	metati		metiti		metoti

Derived terms

• meto (“donning, dressing”)
• metebla (“wearable: which can be put on”)
• desmetar (“to take off (a garmet, etc.)”)
• shumetilo (“shoehorn”)

See also

• vestizar

Latin

Verb

metar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of metō

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

Noun

metar m (genitive metair, nominative plural metair)

2. (poetry) metre (rhythm or measure in verse)
4. wooden vessel, mether

Declension

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	metar	metarL	metairL
vocative	metair	metarL	metaruH
accusative	metarN	metarL	metaruH
genitive	metairL	metar	metarN
dative	metarL	metaraib	metaraib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: meadar
  • → English: mether, madder, meather, medar, medher
  • → Fingallian: meddar
• Manx: meddyr
• Scottish Gaelic: meadar

Mutation

Mutation of metar

radical	lenition	nasalization
metar also mmetar in h-prothesis environments	metar pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	metar also mmetar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 metar ‘metre’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 metar ‘vessel’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mȅtar m inan (Cyrillic spelling ме̏тар)

1. meter (unit of length)
2. meter (device that measures)

Declension

Declension of metar

	singular	plural
nominative	metar	metri
genitive	metra	metara
dative	metru	metrima
accusative	metar	metre
vocative	metre	metri
locative	metru	metrima
instrumental	metrom	metrima

Further reading

• “metar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Verb

metar

1. present indicative of meta