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μετρητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετρητέος μετρητέον

Structure: μετρητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from metre/w

Sense

  1. one must measure

Examples

  • ἑνὶ μὲν γὰρ μετρητέον καὶ ἐνταῦθ’, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁρ́ῳ, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 209:3)
  • τῷ ἀνάλογον γὰρ μετρητέον, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ πολιτικὴ μετρεῖται κοινωνία. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 209:4)

Synonyms

  1. one must measure

Similar forms

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

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