meto

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of metre

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”) (with messuī for *messī, with influence from early seruī, from serō).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “reap corn”), ἄμη (ámē, “shovel or mattock”) and Old English māwan (English mow).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.toː/, [ˈmɛ.toː]

metō (present infinitive metere, perfect active messuī, supine messum); third conjugation

1. I reap, harvest.
2. I cut, crop or snip off.
3. I cut through, sever.
4. I mow down, cut down (in battle).
   • Tertullianus, Apologeticus, 50.13

     Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis christianorum.

     We multiply whenever we are cut down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

• dēmetō
• messis
• messiō
• messor

• Franco-Provençal: miére
• Italian: mietere

• meto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• meto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

meto

1. Vocative singular of meta.

meto

1. first-person singular present indicative of meter

meto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of meter.