Mete
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English
Verb
Mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)
- (transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) 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,
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7:2
- (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
- 1833 — Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
Noun
Mete (plural Metes)Thesaurus
accord, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter, communicate, compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole, dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out, gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, graduate, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, plumb, portion out, pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain, rate, render, serve, share out, shell out, shower, size, size up, slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading, tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-Germanic *metanan (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”). Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *meit- (“stake, post”). Cognate with Old English wullmod ("distaff").
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Dutch
Verb
Mete
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Haitian Creole
Verb
Mete
Etymology
From French mettre (“put, put on”)
Italian
Noun
mete f.
- Plural form of meta.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
mete
- second-person singular present active imperative of metō
Middle English
Noun
Mete
Noun
Mete
Adjective
mēte
- suitable, fitting, appropriate.
- pleasing, accommodating, useful.
- right in shape or size, well-fitting.
Adverb
mēte
Etymology 1
From Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.
Etymology 2
From Old French mete (“boundary, mere”). More at mete.
Etymology 3
From Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, meet”). More at meet.
References
Old English
Noun
Mete m.
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *matiz.
Declension
Portuguese
Verb
Mete
Spanish
Verb
Mete (infinitive meter)
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