English

Noun

modius ‎(plural modii)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A dry measure, containing about a peck.

Latin

Etymology

From modus.

Noun

modius m ‎(genitive modiī); second declension

1. the Roman corn-measure, a measure, peck, containing sixteen sextārii, or the sixth part of a Greek μέδιμνος ‎(médimnos)

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• modialis
• modiolus
• sēmodius

Descendants

References

• modius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• modius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MODIUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “modius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
    
• modius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modius in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• modius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin