meter

Meaning

  1. to put in, insert
  2. to score
  3. to make (noise)
  4. to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove
  5. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere, to get into
  6. (reflexive) to get into (a small space)
  7. (reflexive) to get into, to get in

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
me‧ter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/meˈteɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish meter, from Latin mittō (“to send”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mey-th₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with English mess (sense 2) and also mission, message. Compare also French mettre, Friulian meti, Portuguese meter, and Italian mettere. The semantic shift from "send" to "put" probably occurred in Vulgar Latin.

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