meto

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

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of metre

From meti +‎ -o.

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

meto (uncountable, accusative meton)

1. placement

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

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.

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

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.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: mietere
  • Neapolitan: méte
  • Sicilian: mètiri
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: mèder
  • Lombard: meder
  • Piedmontese: meje
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: miére
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Auvergnat: medre

• “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

mẽto

1. genitive singular of mẽtas (“time”)

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

meto

1. vocative singular of meta

• Rhymes: -etu
• Hyphenation: me‧to

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

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

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter