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to measure by syllables

  • 1 metior

    mētĭor, mensus (post-class. metītus, Dig. 32, 1, 52), 4, v. dep. [Sanscr. ma, to measure; cf. Gr. me-tron, Lat. modus], to measure, mete (lands, corn); also, to measure or mete out, to deal out, distribute by measure (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    metiri agrum,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 2:

    frumentum,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 192:

    sol, quem metiri non possunt,

    id. Ac. 2, 41, 128:

    magnitudinem mundi,

    id. Off. 1, 43, 154: nummos, to measure one's money, i. e. to have a great abundance of it, Hor. S. 1, 1, 95:

    nummos modio,

    Petr. S. 37:

    se ad candelabrum,

    id. ib. 75:

    pedes syllabis,

    to measure by syllables, Cic. Or. 57, 194:

    frumentum militibus metiri,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

    cum exercitu frumentum metiri oporteret,

    id. ib. 1, 23;

    7, 71: Caecubum,

    Hor. Epod. 9, 36:

    quis mensus est pugillo aquas?

    Vulg. Isa. 40, 12:

    tantus acervus fuit, ut metientibus dimidium super tres modios explesse, sint quidam auctores,

    Liv. 23, 12.—
    B.
    Poet. transf., to measure a distance, i. e. to pass, walk, or sail through or over, to traverse:

    Sacram metiente te viam (of the measured pace of a proud person),

    Hor. Epod. 4, 7:

    aequor curru,

    to sail through, Verg. G. 4, 389:

    aquas carinā,

    Ov. M. 9, 446:

    tu, cursu, dea menstruo metiens iter annuom,

    to go through complete, Cat. 34, 17:

    instabili gressu metitur litora cornix,

    Luc. 5, 556.—Also absol.:

    quin hic metimur gradibus militariis,

    to walk, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 11.—
    II.
    Trop., to measure, estimate, judge one thing by another; also simply to measure, estimate, judge of, set a value on a thing.
    (α).
    With abl. of the standard of comparison, or the means of judgment:

    sonantia metiri auribus,

    Cic. Or. 68, 227:

    oculo latus,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 103:

    omnia quaestu,

    by profit, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 111:

    qui nihil alterius causa faciet et metietur suis commodis omnia,

    id. Leg. 1, 14, 41:

    vides igitur, si amicitiam sua caritate metiare, nihil esse praestantius,

    id. Fin. 2, 26, 85:

    vim eloquentiae sua facultate non rei natura,

    id. Opt. Gen. Or. 4, 10:

    omnia voluptate,

    id. Fam. 7, 12, 2:

    studia utilitate,

    Quint. 12, 11, 29:

    magnos homines virtute, non fortuna,

    Nep. Eum. 1:

    usum pecuniae non magnitudine, sed ratione,

    Cic. Att. 14:

    officia utilitate,

    Lact. 6, 11, 12:

    odium in se aliorum suo in eos metiens odio,

    Liv. 3, 54:

    pericula suo metu,

    Sall. C. 31, 2:

    peccata vitiis,

    Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20:

    aetatem nostram non spatio senectutis, sed tempore adulescentiae,

    Quint. 12, 11, 13.—
    (β).
    With ex (very rare):

    fidelitas, quam ego ex mea conscientiā metior,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2: ex eo, quantum cuique satis est, metiuntur homines divitiarum modum, id. Par. 6, 1, 14.—
    (γ).
    With ad:

    nec se metitur ad illum quem dedit haec (paupertas) posuitque modum,

    i. e. accommodates herself, Juv. 6, 358.—
    (δ).
    Absol. (post-Aug.):

    metiri ac diligenter aestimare vires suas,

    Quint. 6, 1, 45:

    pondera sua,

    Mart. 12, 100, 8:

    sua regna,

    Luc. 8, 527. —
    (ε).
    With quod:

    quanto metiris pretio, quod, etc.,

    Juv. 9, 72.—
    B.
    To traverse. go over, pass through:

    late Aequora prospectu metior alta meo,

    Ov. H. 10, 28:

    tot casus, tot avia,

    Val. Fl. 5, 476:

    jamque duas lucis partes Hyperione menso,

    Ov. M. 8, 564.—
    C.
    To measure out, deal to any one, treat one well or ill:

    mensurā quā mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis,

    Vulg. Luc. 6, 38; cf. id. Matt. 7, 2.
    ► In pass.
    signif., to be measured:

    agri glebatim metiebantur,

    Lact. Mort. Persec. 23, 2:

    an sol pedis unius latitudine metiatur,

    Arn. 2, 86.— Part. perf.: mensus, a, um, measured off:

    mensa spatia conficere,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 69.—As subst.:

    bene mensum dabo,

    good measure, Sen. Q. N. 4, 4, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > metior

  • 2 mētior

        mētior mēnsus, īrī, dep.    [1 MA-], to measure, mete: magnitudinem mundi: nummos, i. e. have in great abundance, H.: pedes syllabis, measure by syllables: annum, i. e. divide, O.: Hesperiam metire iacens, i. e. with your dead body, V.— To measure out, deal out, distribute: frumentum militibus, Cs.: exercitui si metiendum esset: Caecubum, H.— To measure, pass over, traverse: Sacram viam, pace off, H.: aequor curru, sail through, V.: carinā aquas, O.—Fig., to measure, estimate, judge, value: suo metu pericula, S.: sonantia metiri auribus: oculo latus, H.: omnia quaestu, by profit: homines virtute, non fortunā, N.: se suo modulo ac pede, H.: nec se metitur ad illum modum, i. e. accommodates herself, Iu.: quanto Metiris pretio, quod, etc., Iu.
    * * *
    metiri, mensus sum V DEP
    measure, estimate; distribute, mete; traverse, sail/walk through

    Latin-English dictionary > mētior

  • 3 mensura

    mensūra. ae, f. [metior], a measuring, measure (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    mensuram facere alicujus, Ov A. A. 3, 265: agere,

    to measure, survey, Plin. Ep. 10, 28, 5:

    inire. Col 5, 3: res (quae) pondere numero mensura constant,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 196.—
    II.
    Transf., a measure, by which any thing is measured:

    majore mensurā reddere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48:

    qui modus mensurae medimnus appellatur,

    kind of measure, Nep. Att. 2, 6:

    mensuras et pondera invenit Phidon Argivus, aut Palamedes,

    Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 198:

    ex aquā, i. e. clepsydra,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

    quicquid sub aurium mensuram aliquam cadit, numerus vocatur,

    Cic. Or 20, 67:

    de mensura jus dicere,

    Juv. 10, 101. —
    B.
    Trop., measure, quantity, proportion, capacity, power, extent, degree, etc.:

    dare alicui mensuram bibendi,

    to prescribe how much one may drink, Ov. A. A. 1, 589:

    nostri orbis,

    Tac. Agr. 12:

    beneficii,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 12, 2:

    qui tanti mensuram nominis imples,

    i. e. who answerest to its meaning, art worthy of it, Ov. P. 1, 2, 1:

    ficti crescit,

    measure, size, id. M. 12, 57: sui, one's own measure, i. e. capacity, Juv. 11, 35:

    sed deerat pisci patinae mensura,

    was too small, Juv. 4, 72: nuribus Argolicis fui Mensura voti, I was the measure of their wishes, i. e. they desired to have as much as I possessed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 400:

    submittere se ad mensuram discentis,

    to accommodate one's self to the capacity of the learner, Quint. 2, 3, 7: legati, character, standing. Tac. H. 1, 52:

    mensura tamen quae sufficiat census,

    how large a fortune, Juv. 14. 316.—In painting:

    Apelles cedebat Asclepiodoro de mensuris, hoc est quanto quid a quoque distare deberet,

    the degree of prominence, and relative distances, of parts of a picture, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 80.—In gram.:

    mensurae verborum,

    the quantities of their syllables, Quint. 10, 1, 10.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > mensura

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  • measure — meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a fixed… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • measure — mea·sure …   English syllables

  • lineal measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • linear measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Liquid measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • long measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Square measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • To have hard measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • To take one's measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • To tread a measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Long measure — Long Long, a. [Compar. {Longer}; superl. {Longest}.] [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. l[*a]ng, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. [root]125. Cf. {Length}, {Ling} a fish, {Linger}, {Lunge}, {Purloin}.] 1. Drawn …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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