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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.ti.or/, [ˈmeːt̪iɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmet.t͡si.or/, [ˈmɛt̪ː͡s̪ior]

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

• commētior
• dimētior
• immēnsus
• mēnsor
• mēnsōrius
• mēnsus
• mēnsūra

Related terms

• mētor

Descendants

• Asturian: midir
• Old Galician-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^[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