meto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.to]

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of metre

Etymology

From meti +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeto]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: me‧to

Noun

meto (uncountable, accusative meton)

1. placement

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

Etymology

From mesi (“honey”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmeto/, [ˈme̞to̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmetoi̯/, [ˈme̞d̥o̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -eto, -etoi̯
• Hyphenation: me‧to

Noun

meto

1. Synonym of mesi

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 304

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *metō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. The perfect messuī for the expected *messī is analogous to other perfects in -ui.

Cognate with Welsh medi (“to reap”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to reap corn”) and ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”), Lithuanian mèsti and métyti (“to throw”), Russian мести́ (mestí, “to sweep”) and метáть (metátʹ, “to throw; pile up hay”), English mow and meadow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.toː/, [ˈmɛt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.to/, [ˈmɛːt̪o]

Verb

metō (present infinitive metere, perfect active messuī, supine messum); third conjugation

1. to reap, harvest

   Synonym: dēsecō

2. to cut, crop or snip off
3. to cut through, sever
4. to mow down, cut down (in battle)
   • Tertullianus, Apologeticus, 50.13

     Plūrēs efficimur, quotiēs metimur ā vōbīs; sēmen est sanguis chrīstiānōrum.

     We multiply whenever we are cut down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

References

• “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• meto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Noun

mẽto

1. genitive singular of mẽtas (“time”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtɔ
• Syllabification: me‧to

Noun

meto

1. vocative singular of meta

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -etu
• Hyphenation: me‧to

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeto/ [ˈme.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: me‧to

Verb

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter