meta

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtə/, /-ɾə/
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

From meta-, back-formed from metaphysics.

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

1. (informal) Self-referential; structured analogously, 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.

   • 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."

• transcendental
• self-aware

From Latin mēta.

meta (plural metas)

1. Boundary marker.
2. Either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus.

Clipping of metagame.

meta (plural metas)

1. (video games) Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game.

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

1. (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.

Clipping of metaoidioplasty.

meta (plural metas)

1. (informal) metoidioplasty

• AEMT, Atem, Tame, Tema, mate, maté, meat, tame, team

meta

1. heap

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmə.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ta/

meta f (plural metes)

1. (sports) finish line
2. (sports) goal, goalpost
3. goal, aim, objective

• “meta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin mēta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /mɛta/

meta f

1. frontier, goal, objective, ambition
2. (softball, baseball) base

• cíl

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

meta (third person singular past indicative metti or metaði, third person plural past indicative mett or metað, supine mett or metað)

1. to measure, to esteem, to consider

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːta/

  Rhymes: -ɛːta

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną.

meta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative mat, third-person plural past indicative mátu, supine metið)

1. to measure
2. to assess
3. to appreciate, to esteem, to consider to be of worth

meta

1. indefinite genitive plural of met

From Latin.

meta f (plural mete)

1. destination
2. aim, goal, end
3. (rugby) try
4. (soccer) goal
5. (archaeology) meta

meta f (plural mete)

1. pile of straw
2. haystack
3. dung (of a farm animal)

meta m (invariable)

1. (organic chemistry) metaldehyde

• team, tema

meta

1. eye

• mata

From Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ("to measure"), related to Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis), μέτρον (métron), μέτριος (métrios), Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra), compare Hungarian mér, Russian мера (méra), Serbo-Croatian mera and mjera, English meal.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.ta/

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
5. vocative singular of mēta

mētā f

1. ablative singular of mēta

First declension.

• mētārī
• mētātor
• mētīrī

meta

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of mest
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of mest

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲæːt̪ɐ]

mẽta

1. third-person singular present tense of mesti.
2. third-person plural present tense of mesti.

From Arabic متى‎ (matā).

meta

1. when

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ta/

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meta f

1. (sports) finish line

   Był tak wyczerpany, że ledwo dobiegł do mety.

   He was so tired that he hardly reached the finish line.

2. (colloquial) familiar store or restaurant
3. (colloquial) place where one can stay for a short while
4. (colloquial) place where alcohol is illegally sold or drunk
5. (bodybuilding slang) methandrostenolone, an anabolic steroid

• meta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin meta (“turning spot in arena; goal”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtɐ/

meta f (plural metas)

1. goal
2. target

• mêta (obsolete)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmetɐ/

meta

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of meter
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of meter
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of meter
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of meter

From Italian meta.

• IPA^(key): /měːta/
• Hyphenation: me‧ta

méta f (Cyrillic spelling ме́та)

1. target

From Proto-Slavic *męta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈméːta/
• Tonal orthography: mẹ̑ta

méta f (genitive méte, nominative plural méte)

1. mint (plant)

From Latin meta (“turning spot in arena; goal”).

meta f (plural metas)

1. goal
2. target

meta

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of meter.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of meter.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of meter.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of meter.

• “meta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

meta (present metar, preterite metade, supine metat, imperative meta)

1. to angle for fish

• metspö

• tema

From Old Norse *mita, meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

meta

1. (transitive) To measure.

• meta sjwaln (“stride”)
• meta dell (“to measure, to approximate”)
• meta ti (“to fill something (with something)”)

• mot
• mått

• måhl