Mete Definition

mēt
meted, metes, meting
verb
meted, metes, meting
To allot; distribute; apportion.
Webster's New World
To measure.
Webster's New World

(archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.

Wiktionary

(usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Wiktionary
noun
metes
A boundary; limit.
Webster's New World
A boundary mark or line.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Mete

Noun

Singular:
mete
Plural:
metes

Origin of Mete

  • 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”).

    From Wiktionary

  • 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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English meten from Old English metan med- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman from Latin mēta turning post, boundary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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