The story
- Latin · learned borrowing frommodius
- English todaymodius
Learned borrowing from Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.
Words from the same roots
Latinmodius all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.