met name

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • met namen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch met namen (13th c.). Literally, “with/by name”. Middle Dutch namen is dative singular of the weak noun name (“name”). After apocope in Modern Dutch, naam was declined strong, so the dative became name.

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

met name

  1. especially, in particular
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