{
  "headword": "meta",
  "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:elementary-latin-n9862",
  "key": "meta",
  "senses": [
    {
      "label": "0",
      "definition": "a cone, pyramid: collis in modum\n                metae fastigatus, L.: petra in metae modum\n            erecta, i. e. in the shape of a cone, Cu.—A conical column at the\n            end of the circus, turning-post, goal: metaque fervidis Evitata\n            rotis, H.: stringam metas interiore\n            rotā, O.—A goal, winning-post, mark: optatam cursu contingere metam, H.: metam tenebant (in\n                a boat-race), V.: metas lustrare Pachyni, to\n            sail around the turning-point (promontory), V.—An end, period, extremity,\n            boundary, limit: longarum haec meta viarum, V.: His metas rerum ponere, of dominion, V.: vitae, O.: umbra terrae, quae est meta\n            noctis, the limit of night: sol ex aequo metā\n                distabat utrāque, i. e. it was noon, O.—Fig.: fama\n            adulescentis paulum haesit ad metas, failed at the critical point.",
      "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:elementary-latin-n9862-n9862.0",
      "children": []
    }
  ],
  "type": "main"
}