tet

tet

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Tetum terms

See teth.

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tet (plural tets)

1. Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”).

Clipping of tetracycline.

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

1. (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of tetracycline.
   • 1996 May 1, phyllis....@den.mmc.com, “Re: Tetracycline”, in sci.med.diseases.lyme‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I was on oral tet for months after I was first dx backn in '88. All I got from it was a very, very nasty and upset GI track. I had to stop it.

Clipping of tetralogy.

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

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

Clipping of tetraploid.

tet (plural tets)

1. (informal, horticulture) A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).
   • 2017, Susan Brownmiller, “Daylily Dreams”, in My City Highrise Garden, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 84:

     Tets are 44-chromosome conversions from 22-chromosome diploids, created by elaborate means involving colchicine, a chemical found naturally in crocuses. Only a tet can pollinate a tet, but some tets can pollinate themselves.

Clipping of tetrahedron or tetrahedral.

tet (plural tets)

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

tet (not comparable)

1. (geometry, engineering) Tetrahedral.

Clipping of tetradrachm.

tet (plural tets)

1. (numismatic slang) Clipping of tetradrachm.
   • 2001 July 4, Reid Goldsborough, “Re: Language, numismatics, and curating”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I've bought a couple of Greek tets that must have been dipped because all the toning is off them. They're white, but otherwise nice. Other tets I've bought have been cleaned as well but have more gray and other coloring and therefore look better.

Clipping of tetra.

tet (plural tets)

1. (informal, fishkeeping) A tetra (freshwater fish).
   • 1998 January 24, LASP, “Dead tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc‎^[3] (Usenet):

     All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine.
     There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.

Clipping of tetanus.

tet (plural tets)

1. (informal, pathology) Clipping of tetanus.
   • 1971, Adelaide Leitch, The Blue Roan, New York, NY: Henry Z. Walck, →ISBN, page 94:

     “It's a tet shot,” Roddy told him, relieved. A tetanus injection was the usual thing for a cut or puncture wound on a horse.

See teat.

tet (plural tets)

1. Obsolete form of teat.
   • [1780?], Nicholas Coxe, The Huntſman. Containing the Best Methods of Sport, for Courſing with Greyhounds, and Hunting All Kinds of Chases in England, […] , London: J. Dixwell, page 50:

     The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.

•   tet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ETT, Ett

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

tét (predicative téeti)

1. she, her

tét

1. her

• 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)

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tet f (plural tets)

1. teth

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛt]

tet f

1. genitive plural of teta

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From tiet.

tet c (plural tetten, diminutive tetje n)

1. (vulgar) boob; tit

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

tet m (plural tets, diminutive tetje n)

1. teth (Semitic letter)

• teth

te +‎ -t

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

tet (dialectal)

1. (personal) you (plural; in archaic English: ye)

• te (standard Finnish)
• työ (dialectal)

From Biblical Hebrew טֵית (ṭēth).

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

tet

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

• -tte

From Latin tēctum.

tet m (plural tets)

1. roof (made of straw)

• cuviert

From Hebrew טֵית (ṭēt).

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

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

• teta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtet/

tet

1. ye, you (plural)

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

From French tête.

• IPA^(key): /teːt/

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

1. forefront, lead

   han ligg i tet.

   he's in the lead.

• “tet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin tēctum.

• IPA^(key): /tet/

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tet m (plural tets)

1. ceiling
2. (nautical) overhead

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

tet (plural tejte)

1. stone, rock

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

Cognate with Classical Nahuatl tletl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtet/

tet

1. fire

• 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

From French tête

tet

1. A head

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

From Latin tēctum.

tet m (plural tets)

1. (Puter, Vallader) roof

tet

1. genitive dual/plural of teta

tet

1. publish

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