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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

  • τοῦ τε διαστήματοσ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ τροπικοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἰσημερινοῦ, ὧν μεταξὺ τίθησι τὴν Ἰνδικὴν ἐκεῖνοσ, δειχθέντοσ ἐν τῇ ἀναμετρήσει πολὺ ἐλάττονοσ τῶν δισμυρίων σταδίων, συμβῆναι ἂν καὶ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον, ὅπερ αὐτὸσ νομίζει, οὐχ ὃ ἐκεῖνοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 36:6)

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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