# mete
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːt
* Homophones: meat, meet

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Verb

mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)
* (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, 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
** 1929, Kirby Page, Jesus Or Christianity A Study In Contrasts‎, page 31:Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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,

##### Derived terms

* bemete
* mete out
* unmeted

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mete (plural metes)
* A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)
* Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”).
** 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.

### Anagrams

* Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛtɛ]

### Verb

mete
* third-person singular present indicative of mést

## Dutch
### Verb

mete
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of meten

### Anagrams

* meet

## Estonian
### Noun

mete
* genitive plural of mesi

## Galician
### Verb

mete
* inflection of meter:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From Saint Dominican Creole French mété, from French mettre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mete/

### Verb

mete
* to put
* to put on

## Italian
### Noun

mete f
* plural of meta

### Anagrams

* teme, temè, temé

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛːt̪e]

### Verb

mete
* second-person singular present active imperative of metō

## Lithuanian
### Noun

metè
* locative singular of mẽtas (“time”)

### Noun

mẽte
* vocative singular of mẽtas (“time”)

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French mettre. Compare Haitian Creole mete.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mete/

### Verb

mete (medial form met)
* to put; put on
* to set
* to wear

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English mete (“food”) (also met, mett, whence the forms with a short vowel). More at meat.

#### Alternative forms

* mæte, meet, meete, meate, mette, met

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛːt(ə)/, /ˈmɛt(ə)/

#### Noun

mete (plural metes or meten)
* Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is eaten:
** c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […]"Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel / […] / and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metesAnd then he blew his horn that the mariners had given him / And when they that were within the castle heard that horn / they put forth many knights and there they stood upon walls / and said with one voice: / “be welcome to this castle” / […] / and Sir Palamedes entered into the castle / And after a while he was served with many diverse meats
** A store or supply of food.
** An individual serving of food, especially when cooked.
** Meat; the (usually cooked) flesh of animals as (an item of) food.
** Food that animals eat (including prey or lures)
* The act of dining; a lunch.

##### Derived terms

* bake mete
* meteles

##### Descendants

* English: meat
* Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
* Yola: maate, met

##### References

* “mē̆te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛːt(ə)/

#### Noun

mete
* boundary, target, point, position

##### Descendants

* English: mete

### Etymology 3

From Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mētijaz, a variant of *mētiz. More at meet.

#### Alternative forms

* meete

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛːt(ə)/

#### Adjective

mete
* suitable, fitting, appropriate
* pleasing, accommodating, useful
* right in shape or size, well-fitting

##### Descendants

* English: meet
* Scots: mete, meit

#### Adverb

mete
* appropriately
* copiously

### References

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

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* met, mett, mette

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *matiz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.te/

### Noun

mete m
* food
** late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
    Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.

#### Declension

Strong i-stem:

#### Derived terms

* ǣfenmete
* metelēas
* morgenmete
* nōnmete

#### Descendants

* Middle English: mete, mæte, meet, meete, meate, mette, met
** English: meat
** Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
** Yola: maate, met

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* meit, met

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

### Noun

mete
* food, especially sustenance (as opposed to desserts, snacks, or sweets)

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: meet

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛ.tɨ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
* Hyphenation: me‧te

### Verb

mete
* inflection of meter:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Rawa
### Adjective

mete
* good

### References

* Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

mete (Cyrillic spelling мете)
* third-person singular present of mesti

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmete/ [ˈme.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ete
* Syllabification: me‧te

### Verb

mete
* inflection of meter:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Sumerian
### Romanization

mete
* Romanization of 𒋼 (mete)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From meta (“angle for fish”).

### Noun

mete n
* (fishing) angling for fish

#### See also

* fiske
* metspö

### References

* mete in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mete in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mete in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Old French metre, from Latin mittō, mittere (“send”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛt/

### Verb

mete
* to put

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | mete | mete | mete | mete | mete |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | metant | metant | metant | metant | metant |
| auxiliary | auxiliary | auxiliary | aveur | aveur | aveur | aveur | aveur |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | metou | metou | metowe | metowe |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | metous | metous | metowes | metowes |
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| indicative | | dji (dj') | tu (t') | i (il) / ele | dji (dj') / nos | vos | i (il) |
| indicative | present | mete | metes | mete | metans | metoz | metnut or metèt |
| indicative | imperfect | meteu | meteus | meteut | metins | metîz | metint |
| indicative | preterit | meta | metas | meta | metîs | metîz | metît |
| indicative | future | metrè | metrès | metrè | metrans | metroz | metront |
| indicative | conditional | metreu | metreus | metreut | metrins | metrîz | metrint |
| subjunctive | | ki dj' | ki t' | k' i (il) / k' ele | ki dj' / ki nos | ki vos | k' i (il) |
| subjunctive | present | mete | metes | mete | metanxhe | metoxhe | metèxhe or metnuxhe |
| subjunctive | present | metaxhe | metaxhes | metaxhe | metinxhe | metîxhe | metinxhe |
| imperative | | — | tu | — | dji / nos | vos | — |
| imperative | affirmative | | mete | | metans | metoz | |

## West Makian
### Etymology

Likely cognate with Ternate mote (“to follow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.t̪e/

### Verb

mete
* (transitive) to follow

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics