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ἀναμέτρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναμέτρησις

Structure: ἀναμετρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)nametre/w

Sense

  1. a measurement

Examples

  • κἂν τῶν νεωτέρων δὲ ἀναμετρήσεων εἰσάγηται ἡ ἐλαχίστην ποιοῦσα τὴν γῆν, οἱάν ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ ἐγκρίνει περὶ ὀκτωκαίδεκα μυριάδασ οὖσαν, περὶ ἥμισύ που ἀποφαίνει τὴν διακεκαυμένην τῆσ μεταξὺ τῶν τροπικῶν ἢ μικρῷ τοῦ ἡμίσουσ μείζονα, ἴσην δὲ καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν οὐδαμῶσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 2 4:10)

Synonyms

  1. a measurement

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

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