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Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of metre

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) IPA^(key): /ˈme.toː/

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

     Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis christianorum.

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

Inflection

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “meto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

Polish

Noun

meto

1. Vocative singular of meta.

Portuguese

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

Spanish

Verb

meto

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