meteとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /miːt/
• 韻: -iːt
• 異形同音異義語: meat, meet

語源 1

From Middle English meten, from 古期英語 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”), 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”).

動詞

mete (三人称単数 現在形 metes, 現在分詞 meting, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

派生語

語源 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 古期英語 wullmod (“distaff”).

名詞

mete (複数形 metes)

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

形容詞

mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)

1. 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.

アナグラム

• Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛ.t̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.te/, [ˈmɛː.t̪ɛ]

動詞

mete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of metō

別の表記

• met, mett, mette

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.te/

名詞

mete m

1. food

語形変化

派生語

派生した語

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

接頭辞

mete-

1. of or relating to food, food preparation, serving, or eating; edible; culinary

   meteþearfende "lacking food, destitute"

   metenēad "food requisite"

   metesōcn "appetite, craving"

   meteclyfa "pantry"

   metefæt "bowl, platter, dish"

   metesticca "spoon"

   meteswamm "edible mushroom"

   meteþeġn "steward"

   meteþing "food preparation, operation of cooking"

   meteþiht "well-nourished"

関連する語

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