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meto.

to reap, harvest

4 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈmɛ.toː]Classical-Latin[ˈmɛː.to]
  1. to reap, harvest

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  2. to cut, crop or snip off

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  3. to cut through, sever

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  4. to mow down, cut down (in battle)

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Where this word comes from

From Proto-Italic *metō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. The perfect messuī for the expected *messī is analogous to other perfects in -ui. Cognate with Welsh medi (“to reap”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to reap corn”) and ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”), Lithuanian mèsti and métyti (“to throw”), Russian мести́ (mestí, “to sweep”) and метáть (metátʹ, “to throw; pile up hay”), English mow and meadow.

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