英文词源
- mete
- mete: see meet
- mete (v.)
- "to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense mæt, past participle meten), from Proto-Germanic *metan (cognates: Old Saxon metan, Old Frisian, Old Norse meta, Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan, German messen, Gothic mitan "to measure"), from PIE *med- "to take appropriate measures" (see medical). Used now only with out. Related: Meted; meting.
- mete (n.)
- "boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, late 15c., from Old French mete "limit, bounds, frontier," from Latin meta "goal, boundary, post, pillar."
中文词源
mete:分配,测量,给予惩罚
来自古英语metan,测量,分配,估计,来自PIE*med,测量,词源同measure,medical.引申词义合理的惩罚,给予惩罚。
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