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• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.ti]

meti

1. inflection of metre:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Italian mettere, ultimately from Latin mittō. Compare French mettre, Portuguese and Spanish meter.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeti]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Hyphenation: me‧ti

meti (present metas, past metis, future metos, conditional metus, volitive metu)

1. to put, place

   Metu ambaŭ manojn sur la stirradon! ― Put both hands on the steering wheel!

From Latin mittere.

meti

1. (transitive) to put, place, lay, set

This is a regular -i verb.

• cometi

• poni

meti

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

meti

1. indefinite dative singular of met

From Latin mittere.

meti

1. to place; to put

   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     Ch’in tu’l su’ fassulito el me metasse.

     That into his handkerchief he would put me.

meti

1. (intransitive) to die

• pameti (“to kill”)

meti

1. saliva

meti

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tiː/, [ˈmɛt̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ti/, [ˈmɛːt̪i]

metī

1. present passive infinitive of metō

meti

1. second-person singular past indicative of mest

• Hyphenation: me‧ti

meti

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

meti (Cyrillic spelling мети)

1. second-person singular imperative of mesti

From Proto-Slavic *męti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *minˀtei.

• IPA^(key): /mèːti/

mẹ́ti impf

1. to rub

Sonorant + -ti -(j)em
infinitive	mẹ́ti
1st singular	mánem
infinitive	mẹ́ti	mȅt, mẹ̑t
supine	mȅt, mẹ̑t
verbal noun	mẹ́tje
	participle	converb
present	manȅč	—
past	mẹ̑t	—
l-participle	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	mȅł, mẹ̑ł	mẹ́la	mẹ̄lo
dual	mẹ̄la	mẹ̄li	mẹ̄li
plural	mẹ̄li	mẹ̄le	mẹ̄la
	present	imperative
1st singular	mánem	—
2nd singular	máneš	máni
3rd singular	máne	—
1st dual	máneva	mániva
2nd dual	máneta	mánita
3rd dual	máneta	—
1st plural	mánemo	mánimo
2nd plural	mánete	mánite
3rd plural	mánejo	—

• “meti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From English meat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.ti/

meti

1. meat, flesh
2. animal

   • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎^[1], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

     Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

     [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']

     Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

3. (obsolete) concubine

• Aukan: meti

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “meti”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary