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Yes. The word modius is a Scrabble US word. The word modius is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word modius is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (3 found)

MODIUS,ODIUMS,SODIUM,

5-letter words (7 found)

DOUMS,DUOMI,MISDO,MODUS,MUIDS,ODISM,ODIUM,

4-letter words (18 found)

DIMS,DOMS,DOUM,DUOS,MIDS,MISO,MODI,MODS,MOUS,MUDS,MUID,MUSO,OUDS,SOUM,SUID,SUMI,SUMO,UDOS,

3-letter words (35 found)

DIM,DIS,DOM,DOS,DSO,DUI,DUM,DUO,IDS,IOS,ISM,ISO,MID,MIS,MOD,MOI,MOS,MOU,MUD,MUS,ODS,OIS,OMS,OUD,OUS,SIM,SOD,SOM,SOU,SUD,SUI,SUM,UDO,UDS,UMS,

2-letter words (17 found)

DI,DO,ID,IO,IS,MI,MO,MU,OD,OI,OM,OS,OU,SI,SO,UM,US,

You can make 80 words from modius according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of modius

modius

Etymology

From Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (“forming adjectives”). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.

Noun

modius (plural modii)

  1. (historical) A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 litres.
  2. (historical) Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
  3. (historical) A bushel-shaped headdress worn by certain deities in classical art.

Translations

References

  • "modius, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

  • odiums, sodium

Latin

Etymology

From modus (“a measure”) + -ius.

Noun

modius m (genitive modiī or modī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Meronyms

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

Derived terms

  • modiālis
  • modiolus
  • sēmodius

Descendants

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • modius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “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 and Roman 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

Anagrams

  • sodium

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