μόδιος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin modius.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.di.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.di.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ði.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ði.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ði.os/
Noun
μόδῐος • (módios) m (genitive μοδῐ́ου); second declension
- modius, a dry measure equivalent to a sixth of a medimnus
- vessel of this capacity
- measure of length, equivalent to 200 ὀργυιαί (orguiaí)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόδῐος; τοῦ μοδῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόδῐος ho módios | τὼ μοδῐ́ω tṑ modíō | οἱ μόδῐοι hoi módioi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μοδῐ́ου toû modíou | τοῖν μοδῐ́οιν toîn modíoin | τῶν μοδῐ́ων tôn modíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μοδῐ́ῳ tôi modíōi | μοδῐ́οιν modíoin | τοῖς μοδῐ́οις toîs modíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόδῐον tòn módion | μοδῐ́ω modíō | τοὺς μοδῐ́ους toùs modíous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόδῐε módie | μοδῐ́ω modíō | μόδῐοι módioi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- μόδιος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόδιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette