mettre
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to put; to place
- (transitive) to put on
- (transitive) to set (to lay a table)
- (pronominal) to start (+ à (à)) (something / doing something), to get around to doing something
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mettre inherited from Old French metre inherited from Latin mittere (send) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mey, *meyth₂-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mey, *meyth₂-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dismiss English
- dimitto Latin
- missa Latin
- missaticum Latin
- missum Latin
- mittere Latin
- mitto, mittere, mittō Latin
- mittō Latin
- Metteur German
- mettere Italian
- démettre French
- entremettre French
- immettable French
- mettable French
- metteur French
- metteuse French
- metteuse en scène French
- pinocumettable French
- remettre French
- *mey, *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey-, *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- entremetre Old French
- maumetre Old French
- metre Old French
- remetre Old French
- almeti Esperanto
- demeti Esperanto
- elmeti Esperanto
- enmeti Esperanto
- formeti Esperanto
- kunmeti Esperanto
- meti Esperanto
- remeti Esperanto
- surmeti Esperanto
- maette Norman
- mettre Norman
- mettre Middle French
- meter Old Portuguese
- meti Friulian
- metre Old Occitan
- mèttiri Sicilian
- métar Venetian
- metar Dalmatian
- mete Haitian, Haitian Creole
- mete Mauritian Creole
- mete Walloon
- meter Ladin
- meti Istriot
- meter Aragonese
- mette Louisiana Creole French
- metté Louisiana Creole French
- mètar Romagnol