Modius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.di.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.d̪i.us]

Modius m sg (genitive Modiī or Modī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Modius Julius, a Roman governor

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “Modius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray