Masculine

métèque

  1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, historical, masculine) metic (resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there)
  2. (by-personal-gender, derogatory, feminine, masculine) wop, sinister foreigner

Frequency

34k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/me.tɛk/
Etymology

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin metoecus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos).

μέτοικος

Metöke

metoiken

metic

metoecus

metojk

metek

pis yabancı

metœcus

metecos

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