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		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

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

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