Etymology

meatless

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Today it means: Without meat. Full definition →

Middle English meteles ← Old English metelēas
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frommetelēas“foodless”
  2. Middle English · inherited frommeteles
  3. English todaymeatless

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.

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