modius

See also: Modius

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.

Noun

modius (plural modii)

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

Translations

Roman unit of measure

• Latin: modius m
• Spanish: modio m

Medieval units of measure — see also peck,‎ bushel

• Dutch: mud (nl), muid
• French: muid (fr)
• Latin: modius m
• Spanish: moyo (es) m

References

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

Anagrams

• odiums, sodium

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 litres

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

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: moggio, mozzo
    • → Sardinian: moggiu
• Padanian:
  • Lombard: meugg
  • Piedmontese: meuj ⇒ armeuj, mojiss
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Bourguignon: meud
  • Old French: moi, mui
    • French: muid
      • → English: muid
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: muig
  • Occitan: muèg, mueg

    Gascon: moi, muei

    Languedocien: muòg

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: moio
  • Portuguese: moio
  • Spanish: moyo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: moju
  • Sicilian: moju
• Borrowings:
  • → Ancient Greek: μόδιος (módios)
  • → Dutch: mud
  • → English: modius
  • → German: Mutt
  • → Italian: modio
  • → Old Georgian: მოდი (modi)
  • → Old Irish: muide
  • → Spanish: modio

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

Anagrams

• sodium