different between meted vs mete

English

Verb

meted

1. simple past tense and past participle of mete

Spanish

Verb

meted

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of meter.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• 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-Germanic *metan? (“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 ???????? (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek ???????? (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian ??? (mit, “mind”).

Verb

mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)

1. (transitive, archaic, poetic, dialectal) To measure.
   • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, 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,

2. (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), 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, p. 31.

     Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mete (plural metes)

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

Etymology 3

Adjective

mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)

1. Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”)

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t?]

Verb

mete

1. third-person singular present indicative of mést

Dutch

Verb

mete

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of meten

Anagrams

• meet

Estonian

Noun

mete

1. genitive plural of mesi

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mettre (“put, put on”)

Verb

mete

1. put
2. put on

Italian

Noun

mete f

1. plural of meta

Anagrams

• teme, temè, temé

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me.te/, [?m?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.te/, [?m??t??]

Verb

mete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of met?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mettre. Compare Haitian Creole mete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mete/

Verb

mete (medial form met)

1. to put; put on
2. to set
3. 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, mette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??t(?)/, /m?t/

Noun

mete (plural metes or meten)

2. Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is eaten:
   1. A store or supply of food.
   2. An individual serving of food, especially when cooked.
   3. Meat; the (usually cooked) flesh of animals as (an item of) food.
   4. Food that animals eat (including prey or lures)
3. The act of dining; a lunch.

Derived terms

• bake mete
• meteles

Descendants

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

References

• “m??te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??t(?)/

Noun

mete

2. boundary, target, point, position

Descendants

• English: mete

Etymology 3

From Old English ?em?te (“suitable, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tijaz, a variant of *m?tiz. More at meet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??t(?)/

Alternative forms

• meete

Adjective

mete

2. suitable, fitting, appropriate
3. pleasing, accommodating, useful
4. right in shape or size, well-fitting

Descendants

• English: meet
• Scots: mete, meit

Adverb

mete

1. appropriately
2. copiously

References

• The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)[1]
• Riverside Chaucer[2]

Old English

Alternative forms

• met, mett, mette

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.te/

Noun

mete m

1. food

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• meit, met

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

Noun

mete

1. food, especially sustenance (as opposed to desserts, snacks, or sweets)

Descendants

• North Frisian: meet

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.t(?)i/
• Hyphenation: me?te
• Rhymes: -?t(?)i

Verb

mete

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of meter
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of meter

Rawa

Adjective

mete

1. good

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mete (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person singular present of mesti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mete/, [?me.t?e]

Verb

mete

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of meter.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of meter.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of meter.

Walloon

Etymology

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

Verb

mete

1. to put

Conjugation