Noun: metus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Fourth
Nominative
| Singular | metus |
| Plural | metūs |
Genitive
| Singular | metūs |
| Plural | metuum |
Dative
| Singular | metuī |
| Plural | metibus |
Accusative
| Singular | metum |
| Plural | metūs |
Ablative
| Singular | metū |
| Plural | metibus |
Vocative
| Singular | metus |
| Plural | metūs |
Sample Sentences
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Magnō mē metū līberābis, dum modo inter mē atque tē mūrus intersit.
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You will free me from a great fear, provided only that a wall lies between you and me.
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(Magnō … metū: ablative of separation.) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.10]
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carminibus metus omnis obest; perditus ēnsem (Every fear is harmful to [writing] verses; I have already been destroyed, and now I suspect a sword will be stuck in my throat.
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(Even though the poet had been sentenced to live in exile he still feared for his life.)) [8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.43–44]
Nouns inflected like metus
frūctus,
scītus,
sessus,
saltus,
socrus,
accubitus,
flūctus,
septemvirātus,
vīctus,
flū̆xus,
olfactus,
pugilātus,
perfectus,
bālātus,
pāstus,
īnfectus,
subrīsus,
sēnsus,
īnflūxus,
arcessītus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
Verbs referencing "metus"
Old Spanish Nouns
miedo, Spanish Nouns
miedo, Galician Nouns
medo, Portuguese Nouns
medo, Asturian Nouns
mieu.
Translations