英语词汇“Indo-European root: mē-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: mē-

释义

‌‌mē-²
To measure. Oldest form *meh₁‑.
Derivatives include piecemeal, immense, meter¹, geometry, moon, and semester.

Basic form mē‑.
1. Suffixed form *mē-lo‑. meal²; piecemeal, from Old English mǣl, "measure, mark, appointed time, time for eating, meal," from Germanic *mēlaz.
2. Suffixed form *mē-ti‑.
  1. measure, mensural; commensurate, dimension, immense, from Latin mētīrī, to measure;
  2. Metis, from Greek mētis, wisdom, skill.
3. Possibly Greek metron, measure, rule, length, proportion, poetic meter (but referred by some to med-). meter¹, meter², meter³, -meter, metrical, -metry; diameter, gematria, geometry, isometric, metrology, metronome, symmetry.
4. Reduplicated zero-grade form *mi-mə‑. mahout, maund, from Sanskrit mimīte, he measures.
Extended and suffixed forms *mēn‑, *mēn-en‑, *mēn-ōt‑, *mēn-s‑, moon, month (an ancient and universal unit of time measured by the moon).
1. moon; Monday, from Old English mōna, moon, from Germanic *mēnōn‑.
2. month, from Old English mōnath, month, from Germanic *mēnōth‑.
3. meno-; amenorrhea, catamenia, dysmenorrhea, emmenagogue, menarche, meniscus, menopause, from Greek mēn, mēnē, month.
4. menses, menstrual, menstruate; bimestrial, semester, trimester, from Latin mēnsis, month.

[Pokorny 3. mē‑ 703, mēnōt 731.]

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