Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μετρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετρικός μετρική μετρικόν

Structure: μετρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. of or for metre, metrical, prosody

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ ἐξ ἁπασῶν μακρῶν, μολοττὸν δ’ αὐτὸν οἱ μετρικοὶ καλοῦσιν, ὑψηλόσ τε καὶ ἀξιωματικόσ ἐστι καὶ διαβεβηκὼσ ἐπὶ πολύ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1720)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοι διά τε τὰ εἰρημένα ἀφετέοι, καὶ διότι μετρικοί· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for metre

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

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