mete-とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /miːt/
• 韻: -iːt
• 異形同音異義語: meat, meet

語源 1

From 中期英語 meten, from 古期英語 metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).

Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).

動詞

mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)

1. (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:

     Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
     Unequal laws unto a savage race

   • 1929, Kirby Page, Jesus Or Christianity A Study In Contrasts‎, page 31:

     Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:2:

     For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

   • 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83

     the Power that fashions man

     Measured not out thy little span

     For thee to take the meting-rod

     In turn,

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 mete, borrowed from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in 古期英語 wullmod (“distaff”).

名詞

mete (plural metes)

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

語源 3

形容詞

mete (comparative more mete, superlative most mete)

1. Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”).
   • 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:

     I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.

アナグラム

• Teme, etem, meet, teem, teme

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *mati.

発音

• IPA: /ˈme.te/

名詞

mete m

1. food
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.

     I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: mete, mæte, meet, meete, meate, mette, met
  • English: meat
  • Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
  • Yola: maate, met

別の表記

• mæte, meet, meete, meate, mette, met

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛ̞ːt(ə)/, /ˈmɛt(ə)/

名詞

mete (plural metes or meten)

1. Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is eaten:
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […]

     "Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel / […] / and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

     And then he blew his horn that the mariners had given him / And when they that were within the castle heard that horn / they put forth many knights and there they stood upon walls / and said with one voice: / “be welcome to this castle” / […] / and Sir Palamedes entered into the castle / And after a while he was served with many diverse meats

   1. A store or supply of food.
   2. An individual serving of food, especially when cooked.
   3. Meat; the (usually cooked) flesh of animals as (an item of) food.
   4. Food that animals eat (including prey or lures)
2. The act of dining; a lunch.

派生語

• bake mete
• meteles

派生した語

• English: meat
• Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
• Yola: maate, met

参照

• “mē̆te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From Old French mete (“boundary, mere”), from Latin mēta. More at mete.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛːt(ə)/

名詞

mete

1. boundary, target, point, position

派生した語

• English: mete

語源 3

From 古期英語 ġemǣte (“suitable, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mētijaz, a variant of *mētiz. More at meet.

別の表記

• meete

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛ̝ːt(ə)/

形容詞

mete

1. suitable, fitting, appropriate
2. pleasing, accommodating, useful
3. right in shape or size, well-fitting

派生した語

• English: meet
• Scots: mete, meit

副詞

mete

1. appropriately
2. copiously

参照

• The Middle English Dictionary (M.E.D.)[2]
• Riverside Chaucer[3]

動詞

mete

1. second-person singular present active imperative of metō