mete
verb /miːt/
/miːt/
Word OriginOld English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’ and Greek medesthai ‘care for’.
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they mete | /miːt/ /miːt/ |
he / she / it metes | /miːts/ /miːts/ |
past simple meted | /ˈmiːtɪd/ /ˈmiːtɪd/ |
past participle meted | /ˈmiːtɪd/ /ˈmiːtɪd/ |
-ing form meting | /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ |