mete

Meanings

Verb

• To measure.
• To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English meten, from Old English metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med-. Cognate with Scots mete, Saterland Frisian meete, West Frisian mjitte, Dutch meten, German messen, Swedish mäta, Latin modus, Ancient Greek μεδίμνος, Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι, Old Armenian միտ.
• From Middle English mete, borrowed from Old French mete, from Latin mēta. Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod.