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metior
metior
Latin
Verb
mētior (present infinitive mētīrī, perfect active mēnsus sum or mētītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
- I measure or estimate
- I distribute or mete out
- I traverse
Inflection
- The third principal part is also found as metītus sum.
| Conjugation of metior (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 + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mēnsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | mēnsus + 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 + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mēnsus + 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 | mēnsus esse | mēnsūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | mētiēns | mēnsus | mēnsūrus | — | — | mētiendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| mētīrī | mētiendī | mētiendō | mētiendum | mēnsum | mēnsū | ||
or
| Conjugation of metior (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 | mētītus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mētītus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | 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 | mētītus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | 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 | mētītus esse | mētītūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | mētiēns | mētītus | mētītūrus | — | — | mētiendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| mētīrī | mētiendī | mētiendō | mētiendum | mētītum | mētītū | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “metior”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
- to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re