I can see "Meta" and think of metacognition, "awareness of your own thinking process". Thinking about how you think. Meta-analysis to study separate but similar experiments.
Wikipedia says "Meta" means above, among, beyond.
Then I found this at alphadictionary.com
Word History: The ancients thought that metaphor carried you beyond the meaning of words. We borrowed it via Old French from Latin metaphora, which came from Greek metaphora "transference", a noun from metapherein "to carry beyond, to transfer". This verb is based on meta "beyond" + pherein "to carry". Meta is a distant cousin of English mid and middle. The root of pherein comes from a prolific Proto-Indo-European root, *bher-/*bhor- which turned up on its own in English as (to) bear, birth, and (wheel)barrow. In Latin the initial [bh] became [f], resulting in ferre "to carry, bear", which we see in confer, refer, defer, transfer, etc. (Today's word came from the ocean of Good Words in the vocabulary of Apoclima, a major trading partner in the Alpha Agora.)
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