Where does “meta” come from?
meta (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian meta, from Latin meta, from Proto-Italic mētā, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.
meta (Serbo-Croatian): target
Ancestry of “meta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | meta | destination; aim, goal, end; try |
| 2 | Latin | meta | cone, pyramid; turning point, winning post;... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | mētā | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | meh₁- | to measure |
Words derived from “meta”