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εὔμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔμετρος εὔμετρον

Structure: εὐμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. well-measured, well-calculated, well-proportioned

Examples

  • Κατακεκ λίσθαι χρὴ τὸν νοσέοντα ἐν οἴκῳ εὐμέτρῳ, εὐκρήτῳ, χειμῶνοσ μὲν ἐν ἀλέῃ, θέρεοσ δὲ ἐν ψύχεϊ νοτερῷ· ἐάροσ δὲ καὶ φθινοπώρου πρὸσ τὰσ ὡρ́ασ τεκμαίρεσθαι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 3)

Synonyms

  1. well-measured

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

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