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ἔμμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμμετρος ἔμμετρον

Structure: ἐμμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, me/tron

Sense

  1. in measure, proportioned, suitable, moderate
  2. in metre, metrical

Examples

  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἡ πεζὴ λέξισ τὸ αὐτὸ δύναται παθεῖν τῇ ἐμμέτρῳ μενόντων μὲν τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἀλλαττομένησ δὲ τῆσ συνθέσεωσ, πάρεστι τῷ βουλομένῳ σκοπεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 424)
  • ὅπερ οὖν ἔφην, οὐ δύναται ψιλὴ λέξισ ὁμοία γενέσθαι τῇ ἐμμέτρῳ καὶ ἐμμελεῖ, ἐὰν μὴ περιέχῃ μέτρα καὶ ῥυθμούσ τινασ ἐγκατατεταγμένουσ ἀδήλωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2515)

Synonyms

  1. in metre

Related

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

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