modius

From Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (“forming adjectives”). Doublet of muid.

modius (plural modii)

1. (Ancient Rome, historical units of measure) A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 L.
2. (historical units of measure) Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
3. (religion, art) 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); second declension

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

Second declension.

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

• modiālis
• modiolus
• sēmodius

• sodium

• 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)
• modius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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