mete

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Anagrams 1.3 Etymology 1 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 2 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Translations 2 Italian 2.1 Noun 3 Middle English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 Verb 3.4 Adjective 3.5 Adverb 3.6 References 4 Old English 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Spanish 5.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːt/, SAMPA: /mi:t/
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• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophones: meat, meet

[edit] Anagrams

• meet, teem

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French mete, from Latin mēta (“‘post, goal, marker’”).

[edit] Noun

mete (plural metes)

1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker. mere.

[edit] Etymology 2

Old English metan, from Germanic *meta-, from Indo-European *med- (“‘measure, consider’”). Cognate with Dutch meten, German messen, Swedish mäta; and (from Indo-European) with Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai), “‘care for’”), Latin mētīrī (“‘to measure’”).

[edit] Verb

to mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)

1. (transitive, poetic) To measure.
   • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7:2

     For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

   • 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83

     the Power that fashions man

     Measured not out thy little span

     For thee to take the meting-rod

     In turn,

2. (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
   • 1833 — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

     Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole

     Unequal laws unto a savage race

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[edit] Noun

mete f.

1. Plural form of meta.

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[edit] Middle English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English "mēte" Note: The oldest root according to multiple sources is the Old English. However, there the Indo-European Root mē- has multiple entries and variants. For an online reference check Bartleby.com's list of Indo-European Roots[1] (Note: Begin there but use the navigation link on their site to explore the next four entries for the root word).

[edit] Noun

mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: met, methe, meate, meit(e, mette, meitte, mate & (early) mæte, (sg. gen. mætes), Pl. mtes & mten.)

1. meat
2. food
3. dream
4. equal
5. boundary, target, point, position

[edit] Verb

mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: meten, meete

1. to dream
2. to meet, come together

[edit] Adjective

mēte Middle English alternative spelling of mēte: meete

1. suitable, fitting, appropriate
2. pleasing, also accommodating and useful
3. right shape or size, well-fitting

[edit] Adverb

mēte

1. appropriately
2. copiously

[edit] References

• The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)[2]
• Riverside Chaucer[3]

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[edit] Old English

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Common Germanic *matiz

[edit] Noun

mete m.

1. food

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

mete (infinitive: meter)

1. informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of meter.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of meter.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of meter.