Etymology

stet

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Today it means: A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out or changed should remain as it was. Full definition →

Latin stet
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromstet“let it stand”
  2. English todaystet

Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”).

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