meta-とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɛt.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈmɛt.ə/, [ˈmɛɾ.ə]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmet.ə/, [ˈmeɾ.ə]

語源 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-), from μετά (metá), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀲 (me-ta), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂ (“in the middle”).

発音

Only relating to metabolism:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɪˈta/
• (General American) IPA: /məˈtæ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /mɪˈtæ/

接頭辞

meta-

1. (anatomy and zoology) Behind. [From 19th century]
2. (botany and zoology) Later or subsequent. [From 19th century]
3. (obsolete, architecture and zoology) Situated between two segments. [From 19th century]
4. (chemistry) Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent. [From 19th century]
5. (organic chemistry) in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in alternate (1,3) positions; contrasted with ortho- and para-. [From 1833]
6. (biochemistry) Relating to metabolism.

参考

• protero- (early, first)

語源 2

Back-formation from metaphysics.

接頭辞

meta-

1. Transcending, encompassing.
2. Pertaining to a level above or beyond; reflexive or recursive; about itself or about other things of the same type. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc. [From 17th century]
3. Having analogies with metaphysics.

関連する語

• epi-

語源 3

Back-formation from metamorphism.

接頭辞

meta-

1. (geology) Modified by metamorphosis; analogies and derivatives of metamorphism. [From 19th century]

語源 4

Back-formation from metastasis.

接頭辞

meta-

1. (pathology) Consequent on.

派生語

Further reading

• List of Ancient Greek words starting with meta-, on Perseus

アナグラム

• maté, team, meat, mate, Tame, ATEM, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, Team, Tema

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɛtə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə]
• 韻: -ɛtə

名詞

meta (plural metas)

1. (video games) Clipping of metagame.

   I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.

   • 2022 November 17, Carver Fisher, “League of Legends preseason 13 has made tanks unkillable”, in Dexerto‎:

     The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust.

   1. (by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.

      Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be.

      • 2023 October 27, 29:51 from the start, in Hard Fork‎ (podcast), spoken by Kevin Roose, The New York Times:

        I remember interviewing PewDiePie a few years ago, and he was sort of telling me about this time where it was like edgy videos were being really rewarded, so everyone was kind of chasing like edgy humor and edgy memes, and sort of trying to figure out where the edge was. And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views.

2. (informal) Clipping of metaoidioplasty.
3. (informal) Clipping of metamour.
4. (fandom slang) Clipping of metanalysis: metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue.
   • 2014, Jay Schnorrer, "Adding to Narration and The Johnlock Conspiracy – The Meaning of Digital Media for BBC's Sherlock", paper submitted to Freie Universität Berlin (link):

     Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps.

   • 2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 84:

     Fans create their own stories and media representation through fan fiction. They challenge the feminism in the [Sarah J. Maas] books through discussions and metas.

   • 2020, Elizabeth Minkel, quoted in "Under the Radar: A Conversation about Tumblr in the Public Sphere", in A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (eds. Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch), page 64:

     It wasn’t until I dug into post-season-3 Sherlock meta in January of 2014 that I started to encounter "the Discourse."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:meta.

形容詞

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

1. (informal) Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.

   Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.

   Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.

   • 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity‎, →ISBN, page 31:

     […] in finessing obligations you fail a "meta" kind of obligation.

   • 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do?‎, →ISBN, page 186:

     Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta, very '97. I can't use it."

   • 2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times‎:

     McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.

2. (video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

   I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.

参考

• transcendental
• self-aware

語源 2

From Latin mēta.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmiːtə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmiːtə/, [ˈmiːɾə]
• 韻: -iːtə

名詞

meta (plural metas or metae)

1. Boundary marker.
2. (historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

アナグラム

• maté, team, meat, mate, Tame, ATEM, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, Team, Tema

名詞

meta

1. genitive plural of mete

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmeː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛː.ta]
• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmeː.taː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛː.ta]

名詞

mēta f (genitive mētae); first declension

1. cone, pyramid
2. turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)
3. boundary limit
4. (figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.278:

     “Hīs ego nec mētās rērum nec tempora pōnō.”

     “For them, I set no turning points of history, nor time limits.”
     (Jupiter reassures Venus that he has granted limitless prospects to the Roman people.)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• mētor

関連する語

• mētior

派生した語