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metiri

metiri is a Latin form of metior, meaning “measure; estimate, judge”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.5: Ubi se diutius duci intellexit et diem instare quo die frumentum militibus metiri oporteret, convocatis eorum principibus, quorum magnam copiam in castris habebat, in his Diviciaco et Lisco, …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11_13.88.10: Metiri me geometres docet latifundia potius quam doceat, quomodo metiar, quantum homini satis sit. Numerare docet me …

All forms of metior (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.