meu

Meaning

Noun

• Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
• The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

Origin

• From Latin mēum, from Ancient Greek μῆον, probably from μεῖον for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.
• Borrowed from Fon mɛ̀wú ("meu").