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.

The formation of its supine-stem derivatives with interfixed /n/ is irregular, probably due to analogy with pēnsus (“weighed”).[1]

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 mētītus 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 infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present mētīrī — mētiēns —
future mēnsūrum esse,
mētītūrum esse 		— mēnsūrus,
mētītūrus 		mētiendus,
mētiundus
perfect mēnsum esse,
mētītum esse 		— mēnsus,
mētītus 		—
future perfect mēnsum fore,
mētītum fore 		— — —
perfect potential mēnsūrum fuisse,
mētītūrum fuisse 		— — —
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

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mēnsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 372–373
  • “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[1], 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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.