Mete

Pronunciation

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

Anagrams

• meet, teem

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"), 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").

Full definition of mete

Verb

1. (transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
• 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, 7:2For 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, Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race

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

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