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4-letter words (5 found)

MATE,MEAT,META,TAME,TEAM,

3-letter words (10 found)

AME,ATE,EAT,ETA,MAE,MAT,MET,TAE,TAM,TEA,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AM,AT,EA,EM,ET,MA,ME,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from meta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of meta

meta emta mtea tmea etma tema meat emat maet amet eamt aemt mtae tmae mate amte tame atme etam team eatm aetm taem atem

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Definitions and meaning of meta

meta

Etymology 1

From meta-, back-formed from metaphysics.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə]
  • Rhymes: -ɛtə

Adjective

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

  2. (informal) Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
Translations

See also

  • transcendental
  • self-aware

Etymology 2

From Latin mēta.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtə/, [ˈmiːɾə]
  • Rhymes: -iːtə

Noun

meta (plural metas or metae)

  1. Boundary marker.
  2. (historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Etymology 3

Clipping of metagame. Folk etymology also suggests an initialism of most efficient tactic available.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə]
  • Rhymes: -ɛtə

Noun

meta (countable and uncountable, plural metas)

  1. (video games) Short for metagame.
  2. (by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.

Adjective

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

  1. (video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

Etymology 4

Clipping of metaoidioplasty.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛɾə]
  • Rhymes: -ɛtə

Noun

meta (plural metas)

  1. (informal) Metoidioplasty.

Anagrams

  • AEMT, ATEM, Atem, Tame, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, tame, team

Basque

Noun

meta inan

  1. heap

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mēta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛ.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈme.ta]

Noun

meta f (plural metes)

  1. (sports) finish line
  2. (sports) goal, goalpost
    Synonym: porteria
  3. goal, aim, objective
    Synonyms: fi, objectiu

Further reading

  • “meta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛta]
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Etymology 1

Derived from Latin mēta.

Noun

meta f

  1. frontier, goal, objective, ambition
    Synonym: cíl
  2. (softball, baseball) base
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

meta

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of mést

References

Further reading

  • meta in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • meta in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Verb

meta (third person singular past indicative metti or metaði, third person plural past indicative mett or metað, supine mett or metað)

  1. to measure, esteem, consider

Conjugation

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of metamfetamiini

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmetɑ/, [ˈme̞t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -etɑ
  • Syllabification(key): me‧ta

Noun

meta (colloquial)

  1. meth, methamphetamine

Declension

Galician

Verb

meta

  1. inflection of meter:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

From English meta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛtɒ]
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Adjective

meta (comparative metább, superlative legmetább)

  1. (informal) meta (self-referential)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːta/
    Rhymes: -ɛːta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną.

Verb

meta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative mat, third-person plural past indicative mátu, supine metið)

  1. to measure
  2. to assess
  3. to appreciate, to esteem, to consider to be of worth
Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

meta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of met

Indonesian

Alternative forms

  • menta

Etymology

From Sanskrit मत्त (matta, “mad, drunken”). Compare to Balinese ᬫᬢ᭄ᬢ (mata, “furious”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abonəmɛn/
  • Hyphenation: mê‧ta

Adjective

mêta

  1. (obsolete) mad
    Synonym: mengamuk
  2. (obsolete) drunken
    Synonym: mabuk

Further reading

  • “meta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin mēta. Doublet of meda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Hyphenation: mè‧ta

Noun

meta f (plural mete)

  1. destination
    Synonyms: arrivo, destinazione
  2. (figurative) aim, goal, end
    Synonyms: scopo, intenzione, fine
  3. (sports) a score
    1. (rugby) try
    2. (soccer) goal
    3. (ultimate frisbee) point
  4. (Ancient Rome) meta (either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.ta/
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Hyphenation: mé‧ta

Noun

meta f (plural mete)

  1. pile of straw
    Synonym: mucchio
  2. haystack
  3. dung (of a farm animal)
    Synonym: sterco
Descendants
  • → Serbo-Croatian: méta

Etymology 3

Clipping of metaldeide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Hyphenation: mè‧ta

Noun

meta m (invariable)

  1. (organic chemistry) metaldehyde

Anagrams

  • mate, matè, team, tema

Kazukuru

Alternative forms

  • mata

Noun

meta

  1. eye

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), whence mētior, with which compare the derived mētor.

Cognate 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.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmeː.ta/, [ˈmeːt̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ta/, [ˈmɛːt̪ä]
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmeː.taː/, [ˈmeːt̪äː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.ta/, [ˈmɛːt̪ä]

Noun

mēta f (genitive mētae); first declension

  1. cone, pyramid
  2. turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)
  3. boundary limit
  4. (figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • mētor

Related terms

  • mētior

Descendants

Latvian

Verb

meta

  1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of mest

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmʲæːt̪ɐ]

Verb

mẽta

  1. third-person singular present of mesti
  2. third-person plural present of mesti

Maltese

Alternative forms

  • mita (dialectal)

Etymology

From Arabic مَتَى (matā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ta/

Adverb

meta

  1. when

Conjunction

meta

  1. when; as

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Verb

meta (singular past indicative mat, plural past indicative mátu, past participle metinn)

  1. (transitive) to estimate, value
  2. (reflexive, til e-s) to be reckoned as, counted for

Conjugation

Related terms

  • mjǫtuðr
  • mætr

References

  • “meta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mēta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Syllabification: me‧ta

Noun

meta f

  1. (sports) finish line, winning post
    Był tak wyczerpany, że ledwo dobiegł do mety. ― He was so tired that he hardly reached the finish line.
  2. goal, end
  3. range, distance
  4. (colloquial) familiar store or restaurant
  5. (colloquial) a place where one can stay for a short while
  6. (colloquial) a place where alcohol is illegally sold or drunk
  7. (bodybuilding slang) methandrostenolone, an anabolic steroid

Declension

Descendants

  • → Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)

Further reading

  • meta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • meta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin mēta (“turning spot in arena; goal”). Doublet of meda.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛtɐ
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Noun

meta f (plural metas)

  1. goal
  2. target

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English meta.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛtɐ
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Noun

meta m (uncountable)

  1. (video games) meta

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • mêta (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -etɐ
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Verb

meta

  1. inflection of meter:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian meta, from Latin mēta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /měːta/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Noun

méta f (Cyrillic spelling ме́та)

  1. target

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *męta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /méːta/

Noun

mẹ̑ta f

  1. mint (plant)

Inflection

Further reading

  • “meta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeta/ [ˈme.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: me‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin meta (“turning spot in arena; goal”). Doublet of meda.

Noun

meta f (plural metas)

  1. goal, target
    Synonym: objetivo
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of metanfetamina.

Noun

meta f (plural metas)

  1. (slang) meth
    Coordinate terms: hierba, coca

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

meta

  1. inflection of meter:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “meta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

meta (n class, plural meta)

  1. Alternative form of mita

Swedish

Etymology

Probably inherited from Proto-Germanic *maitaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeːˌta/

Verb

meta (present metar, preterite metade, supine metat, imperative meta)

  1. to angle for fish

Conjugation

Related terms

  • mete
  • metare
  • metspö

See also

  • bottennapp

References

  • meta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • meta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • meta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • meta in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • tame, team, tema

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish متاع (mataʿ, “any organ or article of enjoyment, possession, or commerce”), from Arabic مَتَاع (matāʕ, “property, possessions”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈtaː/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta

Noun

meta (definite accusative metayı, plural metalar)

  1. Commercial goods, merchandise.
    Synonyms: mal, mülk
  2. (business) capital
    Synonyms: sermaye, anapara

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

  • “meta”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meta²”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3172

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