stet

Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”).

• IPA^(key): /stɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

stet (plural stets)

1. A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain.
   • 2005, Douglas Rushkoff, "Commodified vs. Commoditized", 2005-09-04:[1]

     And my copyeditors at HarperCollins want me to use the word “commodified” exclusively, since it’s the only one in Websters. But I see the words as very different, and have issued a big STET on that one.

Usually used by writing and circling the word stet above or beside the unwanted edit and underscoring the selection with dashes or dots. Alternatively, a circled checkmark may be used in the margin.

stet (third-person singular simple present stets, present participle stetting, simple past and past participle stetted)

1. (transitive) To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was.

   Stet that colon.

• stet docket
• stet processus

• ETTs, Etts, TEST, TETS, TETs, Test, Tets, sett, test, tets

Middle High German stæte, Old High German stāti, ultimately from the root of stehen (“to stand”). Cognate with Bavarian stad.

• IPA^(key): /ʃteːt/

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stet (strong nominative masculine singular steter, not comparable)

1. steady
2. constant, continuous
   • 1909, Lily Braun, chapter 15, in Memoiren einer Sozialistin [Memoirs of a Socialist]‎, Lehrjahre, München: Albert Langen:

     Im Grunde hast du ja recht — ganz recht — aber es war doch nur meine große Liebe zu dir — die stete Angst, die deine zu verlieren, […]

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3. perpetual

• stets

• “stet” in Duden online
• “stet” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /stet/, [s̠t̪ɛt̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stet/, [st̪ɛt̪]

stet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of stō

• stare
• statio
• status