metastasize

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæstəsaɪz/
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• General-American: /məˈtæstəˌsaɪz/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 T AE1 S T AH0 S AY2 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From metastasis + -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning to do things denoted by the adjectives or nouns the suffix is attached to). Metastasis is a learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”), and from its etymons Koine Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”) and Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “change; removal; (medicine) movement of disease, pain, etc., from one part of the body to another”), from μετᾰ- (metă-, prefix denoting change in condition or position) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meth2) + στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “condition, state; position”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh2- (“to stand (up)”)), modelled after μεθιστάναι (methistánai, “to change; to remove”). The use of French métastase (“metastasis”) to refer to the spread of cancer was coined in 1829 by the French gynecologist Joseph Récamier (1774–1852).

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: metastatitzar — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉移 /转移 (zhuǎnyí) — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Danish: metastasere — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Dutch: metastaseren — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Dutch: uitzaaien — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Finnish: metastasoida — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Finnish: metastasoitua — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• French: métastaser — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• German: metastasieren — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• German: absiedeln — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Hungarian: metasztatizál — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Hungarian: áttétet képez — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Hungarian: áttétet ad — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Italian: metastatizzare — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Japanese: 転移する (ten'i suru) — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Macedonian: метастазира (metastazira) — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Polish: dawać przerzuty — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Polish: dać przerzuty — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Romanian: metastaza — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Spanish: metastatizar — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Spanish: metastizar — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Swedish: metastasera — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Vietnamese: di căn — (transitive) of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis in (a body organ); (intransitive) to undergo metastasis
• Finnish: levittää — (transitive) to disseminate or spread (something), especially in a destructive manner; (intransitive) to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner — see also disseminate, spread
• Finnish: levitä — (transitive) to disseminate or spread (something), especially in a destructive manner; (intransitive) to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner — see also disseminate, spread
• Polish: rozprzestrzeniać — (transitive) to disseminate or spread (something), especially in a destructive manner; (intransitive) to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner — see also disseminate, spread
• Polish: rozprzestrzenić — (transitive) to disseminate or spread (something), especially in a destructive manner; (intransitive) to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner — see also disseminate, spread