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μετρητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετρητής μετρητοῦ

Structure: μετρητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: metre/w

Sense

  1. a measurer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μετρητής μετρητᾱ́ μετρηταί
Genitive μετρητοῦ μετρηταῖν μετρητῶν
Dative μετρητῇ μετρηταῖν μετρηταῖς
Accusative μετρητήν μετρητᾱ́ μετρητᾱ́ς
Vocative μετρητά μετρητᾱ́ μετρηταί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν τῶν κριθῶν Σικελικὸσ μέδιμνόσ ἐστι δραχμῆσ, ὁ δὲ τῶν πυρῶν ἐννέα ὀβολῶν Ἀλεξανδρεινῶν τοῦ δ’ οἴνου δραχμῆσ ὁ μετρητὴσ καὶ ἔριφοσ ὁ μέτριοσ ὀβολοῦ καὶ λαγώσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8 1:2)
  • οὑτοσὶ δέ σοι τοῦ λευκοτάτου πάντων ἐλαίου Σαμιακοῦ ἐστιν μετρητήσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 743)
  • Ξέναρχοσ δὲ ὁ Ῥόδιοσ διὰ τὴν πολυποσίαν Μετρητὴσ ἐπεκαλεῖτο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 48 2:6)
  • τοῦ δ’ οἴνου δραχμῆσ ὁ μετρητὴσ καὶ ἔριφοσ ὁ μέτριοσ ὀβολοῦ καὶ λαγώσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 34, iv. de lusitania 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a measurer

Related

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

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