Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To measure with a metering device. · To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. · To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA device that measures things. · A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. · One who metes or measures. · A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
From Middle English metere (“one who measures, measurer”), perhaps (with change in suffix) from Old English metend (“one who measures or metes”), equivalent to mete (“to measure”) + -er. The transference from "person who measures" to "device that measures" was probably assisted by association with -meter, as in barometer, etc. Cognate with Scots mettar, metter (“meter, measurer”), Saterland Frisian Meter, Meeter (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), West Frisian mjitter (“measurer”), Dutch meter (“measurer, gauge”), German Low German Meter (“measuring device, gauge”), German Messer (“measurer, measuring device, gauge”), Swedish mätare (“measurer”).
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- Inherited-form mentionmetereenm · one who measures, measurer
- Derivation mentionmetendang · one who measures or metes
- Cognate mentionmettarsco
- Cognate mentionMeterstq
- Cognate mentionmjitterfy · measurer
- Cognate mentionmeternl · measurer, gauge
- Cognate mentionMesserde · measurer, measuring device, gauge
- Cognate mentionmätaresv · measurer
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