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3-letter words (1 found)

TET,

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ET,TE,

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E,

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Definitions and meaning of tet

tet

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tetum, Portuguese tétum or Tetum Tetun.

Symbol

tet

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tetum.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Tetum terms

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See teth.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. Alternative form of teth (Semitic letter).

Etymology 2

Clipping of tetracycline.

Noun

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

  1. (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of tetracycline.

Etymology 3

Clipping of tetralogy.

Noun

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

  1. (uncountable, informal, medicine) The tetralogy of Fallot.
  2. (countable, informal, medicine) A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Clipping of tetraploid.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. (informal, horticulture) A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).

Etymology 5

Clipping of tetrahedron or tetrahedral.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. (geometry, engineering) A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.

Adjective

tet (not comparable)

  1. (geometry, engineering) Tetrahedral.

Etymology 6

Clipping of tetradrachm.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. (numismatic slang) Clipping of tetradrachm.

Etymology 7

Clipping of tetra.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. (informal, fishkeeping) A tetra (freshwater fish).

Etymology 8

Clipping of tetanus.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. (informal, pathology) Clipping of tetanus.

Etymology 9

See teat.

Noun

tet (plural tets)

  1. Obsolete form of teat.

See also

Further reading

  • tet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • ETT, Ett

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet/ [ˈtɛʰt]
  • Hyphenation: tet

Pronoun

tét (predicative téeti)

  1. she, her

See also

Determiner

tét

  1. her

See also

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “tet”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

tet f (plural tets)

  1. teth

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛt]

Noun

tet f

  1. genitive plural of teta

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From tiet.

Noun

tet c (plural tetten, diminutive tetje n)

  1. (vulgar) boob; tit

Etymology 2

From Hebrew טי״ת (tet). Doublet of thèta.

Noun

tet m (plural tets, diminutive tetje n)

  1. teth (Semitic letter)
Alternative forms
  • teth

Finnish

Etymology 1

te +‎ -t

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet/, [ˈt̪e̞t̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Syllabification(key): tet
  • Hyphenation(key): tet

Pronoun

tet (dialectal)

  1. (personal) you (plural; in archaic English: ye)
Synonyms
  • te (standard Finnish)
  • työ (dialectal)

Etymology 2

From Biblical Hebrew טֵית (ṭēth).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte(ː)t/, [ˈt̪e̞(ː)t̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Syllabification(key): tet
  • Hyphenation(key): tet

Noun

tet

  1. teth (ninth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension

Anagrams

  • -tte

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tēctum.

Noun

tet m (plural tets)

  1. roof (made of straw)

See also

  • cuviert

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew טֵית (ṭēt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Hyphenation: tèt

Noun

tet m or f (invariable)

  1. teth, specifically:
    1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤈
    2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ט

See also

  • teta

Kankanaey

Etymology

Blend of ta +‎ et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtət/ [ˈtɨt̚]
  • Rhymes: -ət
  • Syllabification: tet

Adverb

tët

  1. in truth

Derived terms

References

  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “tet”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[5], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 465

Kven

Etymology

From Finnish te, from Proto-Finnic *tek, from Proto-Uralic *te.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet/

Noun

tet

  1. ye, you (plural)

Declension

See also

References

  • Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk[6], Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French tête.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teːt/

Noun

tet m (definite singular teten, indefinite plural tetar, definite plural tetane)

  1. forefront, lead

References

  • “tet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tēctum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tet/

Noun

tet m (plural tets)

  1. ceiling
  2. (nautical) overhead

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *tetl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta. Compare Classical Nahuatl tetl (stone, rock).

Noun

tet (plural tejte)

  1. stone, rock

Further reading

  • Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
  • Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Pochutec

Etymology

Cognate with Classical Nahuatl tletl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet/

Noun

tet

  1. fire

References

  • Boas, Franz (1917 July) “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 9–44

Réunion Creole French

Etymology

From French tête

Noun

tet

  1. A head

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • tetg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin tēctum.

Noun

tet m (plural tets)

  1. (Puter, Vallader) roof

Slovene

Noun

tet

  1. genitive dual/plural of teta

Zou

Verb

tet

  1. publish

References

  • http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

Source: wiktionary.org