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μετρητής?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: metrētēs

Principal Part: μετρητής μετρητοῦ

Structure: μετρητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: μετρέω

Sense

  1. a measurer

Declension

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

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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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