modius

See also: Modius

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (“forming adjectives”). Doublet of muid.

Noun

modius (plural modii)

1. (Ancient Rome, historical units of measure) A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 L.
2. (historical units of measure) Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
3. (religion, art) A bushel-shaped headdress worn by certain deities in classical art.

References

• "modius, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• odiums, sodium

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Latin

4th century Roman modius

Etymology

From modus (“a measure”) + -ius.

Noun

modius m (genitive modiī or modī); second declension

1. (historical units of measure) modius, a unit of dry measure (especially for grain) of about a peck or 9 L

Declension

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

• sextarius (¹⁄₁₆ modius), medimnus (6 modii)

Derived terms

• modiālis
• modiolus
• sēmodius

Descendants

• Bourguignon: meud
• Catalan: muig
• Dutch: mud
• English: modius, muid
• Old French: moi, mui
  • French: muid
• Galician: moio
• German: Mutt
• Italian: modio, moggio, mozzo
• Old Irish: muide
• Portuguese: moio
• Sardinian: móggio
• Spanish: modio, moyo

Anagrams

• sodium

References

• “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
    
• “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