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Me⋅tis

  [mee-tis]
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–noun Classical Mythology.
a Titaness, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and the mother of Athena by Zeus. Zeus swallowed Metis, and Athena was born from his head.
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Metis 
first wife of Zeus, from Gk. Metis, lit. "wisdom, skill, craft," from PIE base *me- "to measure."
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