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
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