metus

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmetus/ Rhymes: -etus Syllabification: me‧tus === Verb === metus conditional of meti == Ido == === Verb === metus conditional of metar == Latin == === Etymology === Of unknown origin. Klingenschmitt connects the word to Old Irish moth m (“astonishment”), which is semantically attractive; however, he does not explain the phonetic mechanisms by which the two words could be related. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛː.tus] === Noun === metus m (genitive metūs); fourth declension fear, dread, anxiety, apprehension Synonyms: terror m, timor m, pavor m awe, reverence ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== metuō in metū sum (I am in fear) meticulōsus metum concipiō (I become afraid) metum habeō (I am afraid, I entertain fear) ==== Descendants ==== === References === “metus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “metus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “metus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mĕtus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 62 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “miedo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[2] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 66 == Lithuanian == === Noun === metùs accusative plural of mẽtas (“time”)