meter

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to put in; to insert into
  2. (transitive) to put (to place something sowhere)
  3. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere
  4. (reflexive) to get into (to become involved in)
  5. (transitive, vulgar) to fuck, screw

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/meˈte(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meter, from Latin mittere (“to send, to put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).

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