See meta in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "mētor"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Italian: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "mete"
},
"expansion": "Old French: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old French: mete"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "mete#Etymology_2",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mete#Etymology_2"
},
"expansion": "English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: meda"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Galician: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: meda"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "mita"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian: mita",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sicilian: mita"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Borrowings:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "be",
"2": "мэта",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Belarusian: мэта (meta)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Belarusian: мэта (meta)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Czech: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Czech: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "meet",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: meet",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: meet"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "meta#Etymology_2",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: meta\n→ Serbo-Croatian: méta",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: meta\n→ Serbo-Croatian: méta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: meta\n→ Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: meta\n→ Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "мета#Etymology_2",
"alt": "мета",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: мета (meta)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: мета (meta)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sk",
"2": "méta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Slovak: méta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Slovak: méta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: meta"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"id": "cone"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*mētā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *mētā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₁-",
"t": "to measure"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μῆτις"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cu",
"2": "мѣра"
},
"expansion": "Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hu",
"2": "mér"
},
"expansion": "Hungarian mér",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "ме́ра"
},
"expansion": "Russian ме́ра (méra)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "mera"
},
"expansion": "Serbo-Croatian mera",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "meal"
},
"expansion": "English meal",
"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), whence mētior, with which compare the derived mētor.\nCognate with Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis), μέτρον (métron), μέτριος (métrios), Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra); compare also Hungarian mér, Russian ме́ра (méra), Serbo-Croatian mera and mjera, English meal.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mēta",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "mēta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mēta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mēta<1>"
},
"expansion": "mēta f (genitive mētae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mēta<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "mētior"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"cone, pyramid"
],
"id": "en-meta-la-noun-nb-JfebK",
"links": [
[
"cone",
"cone"
],
[
"pyramid",
"pyramid"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 83 6 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 43 16 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 65 10 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)"
],
"id": "en-meta-la-noun-Jz2wWB6K",
"links": [
[
"turning point",
"turning point"
],
[
"post",
"post"
],
[
"Circus",
"Circus"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"boundary limit"
],
"id": "en-meta-la-noun-Z7~G8B3K",
"links": [
[
"boundary",
"boundary"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "“For them, I set no turning points of history, nor time limits.”\n(Jupiter reassures Venus that he has granted limitless prospects to the Roman people.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.278",
"text": "Hīs ego nec mētās rērum nec tempora pōnō."
}
],
"glosses": [
"goal, end, limit, turning point"
],
"id": "en-meta-la-noun-jwxp3Byr",
"links": [
[
"goal",
"goal"
],
[
"end",
"end"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"turning point",
"turning point"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmeː.ta/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmeːt̪ä]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ta/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːt̪ä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmeː.taː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmeːt̪äː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ta/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːt̪ä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "meta"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle English links with manual fragments",
"Pages with 26 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "mētor"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Italian: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "mete"
},
"expansion": "Old French: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old French: mete"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "mete#Etymology_2",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mete#Etymology_2"
},
"expansion": "English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: meda"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Galician: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: meda"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "mita"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian: mita",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sicilian: mita"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "meda"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: meda",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: meda"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Borrowings:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "be",
"2": "мэта",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Belarusian: мэта (meta)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Belarusian: мэта (meta)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Czech: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Czech: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "meet",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: meet",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: meet"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "meta#Etymology_2",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: meta\n→ Serbo-Croatian: méta",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: meta\n→ Serbo-Croatian: méta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: meta\n→ Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: meta\n→ Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "мета#Etymology_2",
"alt": "мета",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: мета (meta)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: мета (meta)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sk",
"2": "méta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Slovak: méta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Slovak: méta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "meta",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: meta"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"id": "cone"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*mētā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *mētā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*meh₁-",
"t": "to measure"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μῆτις"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cu",
"2": "мѣра"
},
"expansion": "Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hu",
"2": "mér"
},
"expansion": "Hungarian mér",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "ме́ра"
},
"expansion": "Russian ме́ра (méra)",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "mera"
},
"expansion": "Serbo-Croatian mera",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "meal"
},
"expansion": "English meal",
"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), whence mētior, with which compare the derived mētor.\nCognate with Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis), μέτρον (métron), μέτριος (métrios), Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra); compare also Hungarian mér, Russian ме́ра (méra), Serbo-Croatian mera and mjera, English meal.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mēta",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "mēta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mēta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "mētae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mēta<1>"
},
"expansion": "mēta f (genitive mētae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mēta<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "mētior"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"cone, pyramid"
],
"links": [
[
"cone",
"cone"
],
[
"pyramid",
"pyramid"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)"
],
"links": [
[
"turning point",
"turning point"
],
[
"post",
"post"
],
[
"Circus",
"Circus"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"boundary limit"
],
"links": [
[
"boundary",
"boundary"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "“For them, I set no turning points of history, nor time limits.”\n(Jupiter reassures Venus that he has granted limitless prospects to the Roman people.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.278",
"text": "Hīs ego nec mētās rērum nec tempora pōnō."
}
],
"glosses": [
"goal, end, limit, turning point"
],
"links": [
[
"goal",
"goal"
],
[
"end",
"end"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"turning point",
"turning point"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmeː.ta/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmeːt̪ä]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ta/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːt̪ä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmeː.taː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmeːt̪äː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ta/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛːt̪ä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "meta"
}
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