metior

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mētis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (to measure).

Cognates include Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis), μέτρον (métron), μέτριος (métrios), Old Church Slavonic мѣра (měra), compare Hungarian mér, Russian ме́ра (méra), Serbo-Croatian mera, ме̏ра, and mjera, mjȅra, and English meal.

Pronunciation

Verb

mētior (present infinitive mētīrī, perfect active mēnsus sum or mētītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent

  1. to measure or estimate
  2. to distribute or mete out
  3. to traverse

Conjugation

  • The perfect participle metītus is post-Classical.
   Conjugation of mētior (fourth conjugation, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mētior mētīris,
mētīre
mētītur mētīmur mētīminī mētiuntur
imperfect mētiēbar mētiēbāris,
mētiēbāre
mētiēbātur mētiēbāmur mētiēbāminī mētiēbantur
future mētiar mētiēris,
mētiēre
mētiētur mētiēmur mētiēminī mētientur
perfect mēnsus or mētītus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect mēnsus or mētītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect mēnsus or mētītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mētiar mētiāris,
mētiāre
mētiātur mētiāmur mētiāminī mētiantur
imperfect mētīrer mētīrēris,
mētīrēre
mētīrētur mētīrēmur mētīrēminī mētīrentur
perfect mēnsus or mētītus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect mēnsus or mētītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mētīre mētīminī
future mētītor mētītor mētiuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives mētīrī mēnsum esse,
mētītum esse
mēnsūrum esse,
mētītūrum esse
participles mētiēns mēnsus,
mētītus
mēnsūrus,
mētītūrus
mētiendus,
mētiundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
mētiendī mētiendō mētiendum mētiendō mēnsum,
mētītum
mēnsū,
mētītū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Asturian: midir
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: medir
  • Sardinian: medire, mediri, metire
  • Spanish: medir

References

  • metior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • metior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • metior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re
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