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metior.

to measure or estimate

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

verb[ˈmeː.ti.ɔr]Classical-Latin[ˈmɛt.t͡si.or]
  1. to measure or estimate

    conjugation-4 · deponent
    Quis mēnsus est pugillō aquās, et caelōs palmō ponderāvit?
  2. to distribute or mete out

    conjugation-4 · deponent
  3. to traverse

    conjugation-4 · deponent
Where this word comes from

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”).

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