1. mēto — Lewis & Short
mēto (no
I perf.), ātum, 1, v. a., to measure; v. metor fin.
The corpus record — Latin
meto2
meto2
perf.), ātum, 1, v. a., to measure; v. metor fin
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Where it lives
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 30.82/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 18.25/10k
- Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
- De Spectaculis 4 · 6.29/10k
- Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
- Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
- Ars Amatoria 6 · 4.03/10k
- Suasoriae 4 · 3.89/10k
Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. mĕto — Lewis & Short
mĕto, messŭi (Cato ap. messum, 3, v. a. and n.root ma-; Gr. a)ma/w, mow, reap; a)/mh, sickle; cf. messis, messor,
Prisc. p. 903 P.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 319),I to reap, mow, crop; of the vintage, to gather, gather in, collect; and poet. of the sucking of honey from flowers (class.).
I Lit.:
cum est matura seges, metendum,Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3:
sunt autem metendi genera complura,Col. 2, 21, 2:
in metendo occupatos,Caes. B. G. 4, 32:
pabula falce,to cut, cut down, Ov. H. 6, 84:
farra,id. F 2, 519:
arva,Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.—Prov.:
ut sementem feceris, ita et metes,as you sow, so shall you reap, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; cf.:
ventum seminabunt et turbinem metent,Vulg. Os. 8, 7:
qui seminant iniquitatem metet mala,id. Prov. 22, 8:
mihi istic nec seritur, nec metitur,i. e. I have no share in it, it does not concern me, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 80:
sibi quisque ruri metit,every one looks out for himself, id. Most. 3, 2, 112: Tibi aras, tibi occas, tibi seris;
tibi item metes,id. Merc. prol. 71.—Of the vintage, to gather, etc.:
postremus metito,Verg. G. 2, 410; so,
vindemiam,Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 185.—Of bees: purpureosque metunt flores, reap the flowers, i. e. gather the pollen, Verg. G. 4, 54.—
II Transf.
A In gen., to cut off, pluck off, crop (poet.):
virgā lilia summa metit,Ov. F. 2, 706:
barbam forfice,Mart. 7, 95, 12:
capillos,id. 10, 83, 11:
olus,to cut, gather, Calp. Ecl. 2, 74:
et ferus in silvā farra metebat aper,laid waste, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 40:
ille metit barbam,Juv. 3, 186. —
2 In partic., in battle, to mow down, cut down:
proxima quaeque metit gladio,Verg. A. 10, 513:
primosque et extremos metendo Stravit humum,Hor. C. 4, 14, 31 tum Vesulum ense metit rapido, Sil. 10, 147:
agmina plura metam,Val. Fl. 3, 670.—So of death:
metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 178: vita omnibus metenda, ut fruges (transl. of the Greek of Euripid.: a)nagkai/ws d' e)/xei bi/on qeri/zein), Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 59.—
B To inhabit a region (poet.):
qui Batulum Nucrasque metunt,Sil. 8, 566 (cf. a like poetic transfer of the verbs colere, arare, serere, and bibere).
3. Mĕto — Lewis & Short
Mĕto, ōnis, v Meton.
4. metö — Walde–Hofmann
metö, messus (Sommer Hb.* 568), messum, -ere „mähe, ernte*; dicht. , flücke ab; haue nieder^ (seit Plaut, rom., ebenso Intens. mössö {Zw Gl. [in der Bed, „mähen“ rom. verbreiteter secäre, Wartburg Ill 379], messis. [*met-tis?, anders Meillet-Vendryes 370]f. „Ernte, Erntezeit“ seit Plt., messiö f. „Mähen“ seit Varro, messörius seit Cic. [-0ria f. „Sichel“ Itala] und messuárius [nach früctu-, an- métor — metus. 83 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. metö, p. 988]
Where it came from
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. meto (scan p. 2023; entry #5203).
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