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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) -ius (“forming adjectives”). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.
Noun
[edit]modius (plural modii)
- (historical) A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 litres.
- (historical) Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
- (historical) A bushel-shaped headdress worn by certain deities in classical art.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- "modius, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From modus (“a measure”) -ius.
Noun
[edit]modius m (genitive modiī or modī); second declension
- (historical units of measure) modius, a unit of dry measure (especially for grain) of about a peck or 9 litres
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | modius | modiī |
Genitive | modiī modī1 |
modiōrum |
Dative | modiō | modiīs |
Accusative | modium | modiōs |
Ablative | modiō | modiīs |
Vocative | modie | modiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Meronyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “modius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- modius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- “modius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “modius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “modius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Anagrams
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Ancient Rome
- en:Units of measure
- en:Art
- en:Ancient Greece
- en:Headwear
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin terms with historical senses
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Units of measure