verb/mɛtʁ/
to put; to place; to put on; to set; to start (something / doing something); to get around to it
“il a pris un chiffon grisâtre et l'a mis sur la plaie” — He took a grayish cloth and placed it over the wound.
Antonyms: enlever
Inherited from Middle French mettre, from Old French metre, from Latin mittere, probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with Occitan metre. Portuguese meter, Spanish meter and Italian mettere.