LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
suffix

-met

-met
Classical[mɛt]Ecclesiastical[met]

Meaning

  1. morphemeused as an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns, usually followed by ipse
    ego (“I”) + -met → egomet (“I myself”)
    nōs (“we”) + -met → nōsmet (“ourselves”)

Origins

Uncertain. * De Vaan suggests inheritance from Proto-Indo-European *me (“with”) + *-ti. * Alternatively, Dunkel suggests egomet originates from *eǵh₂óm + *éti. From there, -met would have been reanalysed as suffix.

Quick answers

What does -met mean in Latin?
-met, a suffix, means “used as an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns, usually followed by ipse”.
How do you pronounce -met?
In classical Latin, [mɛt]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [met].