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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmeː.ti.or/, [ˈmeːt̪iɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmet.t͡si.or/, [ˈmɛt̪ː͡s̪ior]
Verb
mētior (present infinitive mētīrī, perfect active mēnsus sum or mētītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
- measure or estimate
- distribute or mete out
- 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
- commētior
- dimētior
- immēnsus
- mēnsor
- mēnsōrius
- mēnsus
- mēnsūra
Descendants
- Asturian: midir
- Old Portuguese: medir
- Galician: medir
- 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
- to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re