modius

Learned borrowing from Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.

modius (plural modii)

1. (historical) A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 litres.
2. (historical) Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
3. (historical) A bushel-shaped headdress worn by certain deities in classical art.

• "modius, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• odiums, sodium

 

From modus (“a measure”) + -ius.

modius m (genitive modiī or modī); second declension

1. (historical units of measure) modius, a unit of dry measure (especially for grain) of about a peck or 9 litres

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• sextarius (¹⁄₁₆ modius), medimnus (6 modii)

• modiālis
• modiolus
• sēmodius

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “modius”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 and Roman 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

• sodium