mete

Pronunciation: /miːt/

The English word “mete” has 2 meanings listed here.

verb

To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

noun

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

Etymology

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, 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…

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