Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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1Dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
Old English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’, Greek medesthai ‘care for’, also by meet.
A boundary or boundary stone.
Late Middle English from Old French, from Latin meta ‘boundary, goal’.