Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix).
Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.
The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix).
Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available.
meta (plural metas)
- (video games) Clipping of metagame.
I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.
- 2022 November 17, Carver Fisher, “League of Legends preseason 13 has made tanks unkillable”, in Dexerto[2]:
The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust.
- (by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be.
- 2023 October 27, 29:51 from the start, in Hard Fork[3] (podcast), spoken by Kevin Roose, The New York Times:
- I remember interviewing PewDiePie a few years ago, and he was sort of telling me about this time where it was like edgy videos were being really rewarded, so everyone was kind of chasing like edgy humor and edgy memes, and sort of trying to figure out where the edge was. And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views.
- (informal) Clipping of metaoidioplasty.
- (informal) Clipping of metamour.
- (fandom slang) Clipping of metanalysis: metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue.
- 2014, Jay Schnorrer, "Adding to Narration and The Johnlock Conspiracy – The Meaning of Digital Media for BBC's Sherlock", paper submitted to Freie Universität Berlin (link):
- Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps.
- 2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 84:
- Fans create their own stories and media representation through fan fiction. They challenge the feminism in the [Sarah J. Maas] books through discussions and metas.
- 2020, Elizabeth Minkel, quoted in "Under the Radar: A Conversation about Tumblr in the Public Sphere", in A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (eds. Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch), page 64:
- It wasn’t until I dug into post-season-3 Sherlock meta in January of 2014 that I started to encounter "the Discourse."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:meta.
- 2014, Jay Schnorrer, "Adding to Narration and The Johnlock Conspiracy – The Meaning of Digital Media for BBC's Sherlock", paper submitted to Freie Universität Berlin (link):
meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)
- (informal) Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.
- 2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times[6]:
McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.
- (video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.
I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
- Boundary marker.
- (historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
See Bangi bweta.
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Learned borrowing from Latin mēta.
meta f (plural metes)
- (historical) meta
- (sports) finish line
- (sports) goal, goalpost
- Synonym: porteria
- goal, aim, objective
meta f
Declension of meta (hard feminine)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
meta
- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2007), “meta”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
meta (third person singular past indicative metti or metaði, third person plural past indicative mett or metað, supine mett or metað)
1Only the past participle being declined.
meta (colloquial)
meta
- inflection of meter:
Orthographic borrowing from English meta, probably also affected by terms like metafizika, metakommunikáció etc.
meta (comparative metább, superlative legmetább)
From Old Norse meta, from Proto-Germanic *metaną.
meta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative mat, third-person plural past indicative mátu, supine metið)
- to measure
- to assess
- to appreciate, to esteem, to consider to be of worth
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
meta
From Sanskrit मत्त (matta, “mad, drunken”). Compare to Balinese mata (“furious”).
mêta (comparative lebih meta, superlative paling meta)
Learned borrowing from Latin mēta. Doublet of meda.
meta f (plural mete)
- destination
- Synonyms: arrivo, destinazione
- (figurative) aim, goal, end
- Synonyms: scopo, intenzione, fine
- (sports) a score
- (Ancient Rome) meta (either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus)
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meta f (plural mete)
Clipping of metaldeide.
meta m (invariable)
meta
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.
mēta f (genitive mētae); first declension
- cone, pyramid
- turning point, winning post (pillar at each end of the Circus route)
- boundary limit
- (figuratively) goal, end, limit, turning point
First-declension noun.
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From Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
meta (singular past indicative mat, plural past indicative mátu, past participle metinn)
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “meta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Learned borrowing from Latin mēta.
meta f
- (sports) finish line, winning post
- Był tak wyczerpany, że ledwo dobiegł do mety. ― He was so tired that he hardly reached the finish line.
- goal, end
- range, distance
- (colloquial) familiar store or restaurant
- (colloquial) a place where one can stay for a short while
- (colloquial) a place where alcohol is illegally sold or drunk
- (bodybuilding slang) methandrostenolone, an anabolic steroid
- → Ukrainian: мета́ (metá)
- “meta”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[7] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “meta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[8] (in Polish)
Learned borrowing from Latin mēta (“turning spot in arena; goal”). Doublet of meda.
- Rhymes: -ɛtɐ
- Hyphenation: me‧ta
meta f (plural metas)
- Rhymes: -ɛtɐ
- Hyphenation: me‧ta
meta m (uncountable)
- (video games) meta
- 2020, “Qual o Novo meta do Fortnite – Temporada 6”, in Escola dos Games[9], archived from the original on 14 May 2021:
- Quando falamos de inventário, alguns itens continuam muito fortes e flexíveis no meta, como por exemplo os arpões. Como as snipers saíram do meta, os jogadores tiveram que trocar um dos utilitários para conseguir tags durante o meio do jogo.
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- mêta (pre-reform spelling)
- Rhymes: -etɐ
- Hyphenation: me‧ta
meta
- inflection of meter:
Borrowed from Italian meta, from Latin mēta.
méta f (Cyrillic spelling ме́та)
- “meta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *męta.
mẹ̑ta f
- mint (plant)
- “meta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026
Borrowed from Latin meta (“turning spot in arena; goal”). Doublet of meda.
meta f (plural metas)
meta f (plural metas)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
meta
- inflection of meter:
meta class IX (plural meta class X)
- alternative form of mita
Probably inherited from Proto-Germanic *maitaną.
meta (present metar, preterite metade, supine metat, imperative meta)
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish متاع (mataʿ, “any organ or article of enjoyment, possession, or commerce”),[1] from Arabic مَتَاع (matāʕ, “property, possessions”).[2]