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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori w?t?.

Noun

weta (plural wetas or weta)

1. Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tawe, Tewa, tawe

Igbo

Etymology

From we (“take”) + tá (“towards”).

Verb

wetá

1. to bring.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish aguaitar in the meaning of "to pay attention" or "to take care".

Verb

weta

1. to see

Polish

Noun

weta

1. genitive singular of weto
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of weto

Swazi

Etymology

Borrowed from English waiter.

Noun

wetá 1a (plural bówetá 2a)

1. waiter

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

weta ?

1. a battle, struggle

English

Etymology 1

From meta-, back-formed from metaphysics.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/, [?m???]
• Rhymes: -?t?

Adjective

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

2. (informal) Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level.

Translations

See also

• transcendental
• self-aware

Etymology 2

From Latin m?ta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?/, /mi???/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Noun

meta (plural metas or metae)

1. Boundary marker.
2. (historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Etymology 3

Clipping of metagame.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/, /m???/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

meta (plural metas)

1. (video games) Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game.

2. (by extension, Internet slang) An informal but widely-adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.

Adjective

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

1. (video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

Etymology 4

Clipping of metaoidioplasty.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

meta (plural metas)

1. (informal) Metoidioplasty.

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, Tame, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, tame, team

Basque

Noun

meta inan

1. heap

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?me.ta/

Noun

meta f (plural metes)

1. (sports) finish line
2. (sports) goal, goalpost
3. goal, aim, objective

Further reading

• “meta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Latin m?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ta/

Noun

meta f

1. frontier, goal, objective, ambition
2. (softball, baseball) base

Declension

Synonyms

• cíl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?ta]
• Rhymes: -?ta
• Hyphenation: me?ta

Verb

meta

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mést

Synonyms

• zametaje

Related terms

• metouc

References

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metan?, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Verb

meta (third person singular past indicative metti or metaði, third person plural past indicative mett or metað, supine mett or metað)

1. to measure, esteem, consider

Conjugation

Hungarian

Etymology

From English meta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t?]
• Hyphenation: me?ta

Adjective

meta (comparative metább, superlative legmetább)

1. (informal) meta (self-referential)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ta/

  Rhymes: -??ta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metan?.

Verb

meta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative mat, third-person plural past indicative mátu, supine metið)

1. to measure
2. to assess
3. to appreciate, to esteem, to consider to be of worth

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

meta

1. indefinite genitive plural of met

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• menta

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (matta, “mad, drunken”). Compare to Balinese ???? (mata, “furious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abon?m?n/
• Hyphenation: mê?ta

Adjective

mêta (plural meta-meta)

1. (obsolete) mad

   Synonym: mengamuk

2. (obsolete) drunken

   Synonym: mabuk

Further reading

• “meta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin m?ta. Doublet of meda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.ta/

Noun

meta f (plural mete)

1. destination

   Synonyms: arrivo, destinazione

2. (figuratively) aim, goal, end

   Synonyms: scopo, intenzione, fine

3. (rugby) try
4. (soccer) goal
5. (Ancient Rome) meta (either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.ta/

Noun

meta f (plural mete)

1. pile of straw

   Synonym: mucchio

2. haystack
3. dung (of a farm animal)

   Synonym: sterco

Descendants

• ? Serbo-Croatian: méta

Etymology 3

Shortening of metaldeide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.ta/

Noun

meta m (invariable)

1. (organic chemistry) metaldehyde

Anagrams

• team, tema

Kazukuru

Alternative forms

• mata

Noun

meta

1. eye

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *m?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (“to measure”). Related to Ancient Greek ????? (mêtis), ?????? (métron), ??????? (métrios), Old Church Slavonic ???? (m?ra); compare also Hungarian mér, Russian ????? (méra), Serbo-Croatian mera and mjera, English meal.

Pronunciation

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

Noun 1

m?ta f (genitive m?tae); first declension

1. cone, pyramid
2. turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)
3. boundary limit
4. (figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point
5. vocative singular of m?ta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• Italian: meda
• Old French: mete
  • ? Middle English: mete
    • English: mete
• Old Portuguese: meda
  • Galician: meda
  • Portuguese: meda
• Spanish: meda
• ? Belarusian: ???? (meta)
• ? Catalan: meta
• ? Czech: meta
• ? English: meta
• ? Italian: meta
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: méta
• ? Polish: meta
  • ? Ukrainian: ????? (metá)
• ? Portuguese: meta
• ? Russian: ???? (meta)
• ? Slovak: méta
• ? Spanish: meta

Noun 2

m?t? f

1. ablative singular of m?ta

Latvian

Verb

meta

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of mest
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of mest

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?æ?t??]

Verb

m?ta

1. third-person singular present of mesti
2. third-person plural present of mesti

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (mat?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ta/

Adverb

meta

1. when

Conjunction

meta

1. when; as

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *metan? (“to measure”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Verb

meta (singular past indicative mat, plural past indicative mátu, past participle metinn)

1. (transitive) to estimate, value
2. (reflexive, til e-s) to be reckoned as, counted for

Conjugation

Related terms

• mj?tuðr
• mætr

References

• meta in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Etymology

From Latin m?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.ta/

Noun

meta f

1. (sports) finish line, winning post

2. goal, end
3. range, distance
4. (colloquial) familiar store or restaurant
5. (colloquial) A place where one can stay for a short while.
6. (colloquial) A place where alcohol is illegally sold or drunk.
7. (bodybuilding slang) methandrostenolone, an anabolic steroid

Declension

Descendants

• ? Ukrainian: ????? (metá)

Further reading

• meta in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• meta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin m?ta (“turning spot in arena; goal”). Doublet of meda.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/, [?m?.t??]

Noun

meta f (plural metas)

1. goal
2. target

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• mêta (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?me.t?/

Verb

meta

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of meter
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of meter
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of meter
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of meter

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian meta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ta/
• Hyphenation: me?ta

Noun

méta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. target

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?ta/

Noun

m??ta f

1. mint (plant)

Inflection

Further reading

• “meta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?meta/, [?me.t?a]

Etymology 1

From Latin meta (“turning spot in arena; goal”).

Noun

meta f (plural metas)

1. goal
2. target

Derived terms

• saque de meta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

meta

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of meter.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of meter.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of meter.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of meter.

Further reading

• “meta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

meta (n class, plural meta)

1. Alternative form of mita

Swedish

Verb

meta (present metar, preterite metade, supine metat, imperative meta)

1. to angle for fish

Conjugation

Related terms

• metspö

Anagrams

• tame, team, tema

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *mita, meta, from Proto-Germanic *metan?, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Verb

meta

1. (transitive) To measure.

   Synonym: måhl

Derived terms

Related terms