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ἄμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμετρος

Structure: ἀμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. without measure, immense, excessive, boundless
  2. immoderate

Examples

  • σῶν γὰρ ἀμέτρων ζήλων εἰσ ἃ θέλεισ καὶ γραφὶσ αἰσθάνεται. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 137 1:2)
  • εἰ δ’ ὀλίγον πηλὸν τοῦ σώματοσ οὐ καταριθμεῖσ, πῶσ δύνασαι γνῶναι τῶν ἀμέτρων τὰ μέτρα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 349 1:1)
  • διὰ δὲ ταῦθ’ ἡμῖν καρποί τε καὶ ἐγκύμων ἡ γῆ γέγονεν, ὥστ’ εἶναι τροφὴν πᾶσι τοῖσ ζῴοισ, ἀνέμων τε καὶ ὑετῶν γιγνομένων οὐκ ἐξαισίων οὐδὲ ἀμέτρων· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 45:2)
  • τὰ τῶν μετρητῶν τε καὶ ἀμέτρων πρὸσ ἄλληλα ᾗτινι φύσει γέγονεν. (Plato, Laws, book 7 201:2)
  • κατὰ φύσιν μὲν γὰρ πρῶτον κεῖται, λύττησ δὲ ἐρωτικῆσ καὶ μανίασ καὶ μοιχειῶν πασῶν καὶ πωμάτων καὶ σίτων εἴργεσθαι ποιεῖ τῶν ἀμέτρων πάντων, γυναιξί τε αὑτῶν οἰκείουσ εἶναι φίλουσ· (Plato, Laws, book 8 68:1)

Synonyms

  1. without measure

  2. immoderate

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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