mete

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• /miːt/
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• rhymes with -iːt
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• homophone: meat
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• homophone: meet
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• CMU ARPABET: M IY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: M EH1 T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English mǣte, ġemǣte (“moderate, suitable”). More at meet.

From Middle English mete, from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”).

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, 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”).

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гра́ница (gránica) — boundary or other limit
• Bulgarian: преде́л (predél) — boundary or other limit
• Latin: līmēs — boundary or other limit
• Latin: limbus — boundary or other limit
• Latin: terminus — boundary or other limit
• Bulgarian: отмервам (otmervam) — To measure
• Czech: měřit — To measure
• Czech: odměřit — To measure
• Finnish: mitata — To measure
• Northern Kurdish: pîvan — To measure
• Latin: mētior — To measure
• Polish: mierzyć — To measure
• Polish: zmierzyć — To measure
• Polish: pomierzyć — To measure
• Spanish: medir — To measure
• Swedish: mäta — To measure
• Czech: přidělit — To dispense
• Finnish: jakaa — To dispense
• Northern Kurdish: siza dan — To dispense
• Northern Kurdish: ceza kirin — To dispense
• Latin: tribuō — To dispense
• Polish: wymierzać — To dispense
• Polish: wymierzyć — To dispense
• Spanish: extender — To dispense
• Spanish: dispensar — To dispense
• Swedish: måtta — To dispense