meto

See also: Měto

Catalan

Verb

meto

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”) (with messuī for *messī, with influence from early seruī, from serō).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “reap corn”), ἄμη (ámē, “shovel or mattock”) and Old English māwan (English mow).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.toː/, [ˈmɛt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.to/, [ˈmɛːt̪o]

Verb

metō (present infinitive metere, perfect active messuī, supine messum); third conjugation

1. I reap, harvest.
2. I cut, crop or snip off.
3. I cut through, sever.
4. I mow down, cut down (in battle).
   • Tertullianus, Apologeticus, 50.13

     Plūrēs efficimur, quotiēs metimur ā vōbīs; sēmen est sanguis chrīstiānōrum.

     We multiply whenever we are cut down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of metō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	metō	metis	metit	metimus	metitis	metunt
	imperfect	metēbam	metēbās	metēbat	metēbāmus	metēbātis	metēbant
	future	metam	metēs	metet	metēmus	metētis	metent
	perfect	messuī	messuistī	messuit	messuimus	messuistis	messuērunt, messuēre
	pluperfect	messueram	messuerās	messuerat	messuerāmus	messuerātis	messuerant
	future perfect	messuerō	messueris	messuerit	messuerimus	messueritis	messuerint
passive	present	metor	meteris, metere	metitur	metimur	metiminī	metuntur
	imperfect	metēbar	metēbāris, metēbāre	metēbātur	metēbāmur	metēbāminī	metēbantur
	future	metar	metēris, metēre	metētur	metēmur	metēminī	metentur
	perfect	messus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	messus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	messus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	metam	metās	metat	metāmus	metātis	metant
	imperfect	meterem	meterēs	meteret	meterēmus	meterētis	meterent
	perfect	messuerim	messuerīs	messuerit	messuerīmus	messuerītis	messuerint
	pluperfect	messuissem	messuissēs	messuisset	messuissēmus	messuissētis	messuissent
passive	present	metar	metāris, metāre	metātur	metāmur	metāminī	metantur
	imperfect	meterer	meterēris, meterēre	meterētur	meterēmur	meterēminī	meterentur
	perfect	messus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	messus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	mete	—	—	metite	—
	future	—	metitō	metitō	—	metitōte	metuntō
passive	present	—	metere	—	—	metiminī	—
	future	—	metitor	metitor	—	—	metuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		metere	messuisse	messūrum esse	metī	messum esse	messum īrī
participles		metēns	—	messūrus	—	messus	metendus, metundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		metendī	metendō	metendum	metendō	messum	messū

Derived terms

• dēmetō
• messis
• messiō
• messor

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: miére
• Italian: mietere

References

• “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• meto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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Polish

Noun

meto

1. vocative singular of meta

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Portuguese

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

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Spanish

Verb

meto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of meter.