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Webster 1913 Edition

Mete

Mete

,
Noun.
Meat.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Mete

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To meet.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Mete

,
Verb.
I.
&
T.
[
imp.
Mette
;
p. p.
Met
.]
[AS.
m[GREEK]tan
.]
To dream; also impersonally;
as,
me mette
, I dreamed
.
[Obs.]
“I mette of him all night.”
Chaucer.

Mete

(mēt)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Meted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Meting
.]
[AS.
metan
; akin to D.
meten
, G.
messen
, OHG.
mezzan
, Icel.
meta
, Sw.
mäta
, Goth.
mitan
, L.
modus
measure, moderation,
modius
a corn measure, Gr. [GREEK] to rule, [GREEK] a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E.
measure
, L.
metiri
to measure; cf. Skr.
mā
to measure. √99. Cf.
Measure
,
Meet
,
Adj.
,
Mode
.]
To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

Mete

,
Verb.
I.
To measure.
[Obs.]
Mark iv. 24.

Mete

,
Noun.
[AS.
met
. See
Mete
to measure.]
Measure; limit; boundary; – used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mete

METE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. metior; Heb. to measure.] To measure; to ascertain quantity, dimensions or capacity by any rule or standard. [Obsolescent.]

METE

,
Noun.
Measure; limit; boundary; used chiefly in the plural, in the phrase, metes and bounds.

Definition 2024

Mete

Mete

See also: mete, meté, mete-, and mɛtɛ

Turkish

Proper noun

Mete

  1. A male given name

Declension

mete

mete

See also: Mete, meté, mete-, and mɛtɛ

English

Anagrams

Verb

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

  1. (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,
  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
Translations

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").

Noun

mete ‎(plural metes)

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

Czech

Verb

mete

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of mést

Dutch

Verb

mete

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of meten

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mettre ‎(“put, put on”)

Verb

mete

  1. put
  2. put on

Italian

Noun

mete f

  1. plural of meta

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

mete

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of metō

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mete ‎(“food”). More at meat.

Noun

mete

  1. food; meat.

Etymology 2

From Old French mete ‎(“boundary, mere”). More at mete.

Noun

mete

  1. boundary, target, point, position.

Etymology 3

From Old English ġemǣte ‎(“suitable, meet”). More at meet.

Adjective

mēte

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

Adverb

mēte

  1. appropriately
  2. copiously

References

  • The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)
  • Riverside Chaucer

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *matiz.

Noun

mete m

  1. food

Declension

Descendants

Portuguese

Verb

mete

  1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of meter
  2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of meter

Spanish

Verb

mete

  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.

Etymology

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan ‎(“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-Germanic *metaną ‎(“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- ‎(“to measure, consider”). Cognate with Scots mete ‎(“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete ‎(“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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt
  • Homophones: meat, meet

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