mete

• vt. 与える；割り当てる；測る
• n. 境界；測定
• n. （イタリア語、トルコ語、チャド語、中央アフリカ語）Mete.

古英語のmetan, 計る, 分ける, 推定する, PIE*med, 計る, に由来し、語源的にはmeasure, medicalと同じ。

mete

mete: see meet

mete (v.)

"to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense m?t, 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."

1. Schools should not mete out physical punishment to children.

学校は生徒を体罰すべきではない。dd>

2.Duly mete out rewards and punishments.

賞罰あり.

3.You did not know the measure you were going to mete me.

どんな量の器を使って私にあげるか分からないから。

4.He sadddled Mutz，promising to mete out cruel punishment to the thief.

彼は馬にまたがり、その賊をこっぴどく治すことを保証した。

5.I will estimate the size of the garden at 1000 square mete .

この庭の面積は1千平方メートルだと思います。