Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μέτριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτριος μέτριᾱ μέτριον

Structure: μετρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. within measure
  2. of average height, the common, moderate
  3. few
  4. holding to the mean, moderate, a mean or middle, the mean, not too great, common, not in strict, common men, the common, just sufficient
  5. moderate, tolerable, moderate terms
  6. moderate, temperate, virtuous
  7. proportionate, fitting
  8. moderately, within due limits, in due measure, fairly, moderately
  9. enough, sufficiently
  10. modestly, temperately, to fair terms

Examples

  • μέτριαι γὰρ αὗται ἡμῖν προῖκεσ. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 16:3)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐγένοντο συμβάσεισ μέτριαι περὶ φιλίασ πρὸσ αὐτόν· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 39 1:3)
  • διαχύσεισ, ἐὰν ὦσι μέτριαι, μηδὲν ἐχούσασ μέγα μηδ’ ἀξιόλογον· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 9 1:4)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ παραλίᾳ ταύτῃ ἀπὸ Ἀμισοῦ πλέουσιν ἡ Ἡράκλειοσ ἄκρα πρῶτον ἔστιν, εἶτ’ ἄλλη ἄκρα Ιἀσόνιον καὶ ὁ Γενήτησ, εἶτα Κοτύωρα πολίχνη ἐξ ἧσ συνῳκίσθη ἡ Φαρνακία, εἶτ’ Ἰσχόπολισ κατερηριμμένη, εἶτα κόλποσ ἐν ᾧ Κερασοῦσ τε καὶ Ἑρμώνασσα κατοικίαι μέτριαι, εἶτα τῆσ Ἑρμωνάσσησ πλησίον ἡ Τραπεζοῦσ, εἶθ’ ἡ Κολχίσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 34:3)
  • ὡσ αἱ μὲν μεγάλαι μεταβολαὶ λύπασ τε καὶ ἡδονὰσ ποιοῦσιν ἡμῖν, αἱ δ’ αὖ μέτριαί τε καὶ σμικραὶ τὸ παράπαν οὐδέτερα τούτων. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 196:3)

Synonyms

  1. within measure

  2. few

  3. moderate

  4. moderate

  5. enough

Related

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

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