métèque
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin metoecus, from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.tɛk/
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Noun
métèque m or f by sense (plural métèques)
- (historical) metic
- (derogatory) wop, stranger
- 1969, Georges Moustaki (lyrics), “Le Métèque”, in Le Métèque, performed by Georges Moustaki:
- Avec ma gueule de métèque / De juif errant, de pâtre grec / Et mes cheveux aux quatre vents
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Descendants
- → Romanian: metec
Further reading
- “métèque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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