μέτριος
First/Second declension Adjective;
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μέτριος
μέτριᾱ
μέτριον
Structure:
μετρι
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- within measure
- of average height, the common, moderate
- few
- holding to the mean, moderate, a mean or middle, the mean, not too great, common, not in strict, common men, the common, just sufficient
- moderate, tolerable, moderate terms
- moderate, temperate, virtuous
- proportionate, fitting
- moderately, within due limits, in due measure, fairly, moderately
- enough, sufficiently
- modestly, temperately, to fair terms
Declension
First/Second declension
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.
- καί σε ὑπεμίμνησκε τῶν τελευταίων ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰρημένων, ὅτι μετρίαν καὶ ἄτυφον ἔφησ αὐτὴν οὐκ ἀνατεινομένην ὑπὲρ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον μέτρον, ἀλλὰ πρόσγειον τὴν πτῆσιν ποιουμένην, ὁ δὲ ταῦτα εἰπὼν ὑπὲρ αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβιβάζεισ τὴν γυναῖκα, ὡσ καὶ θεαῖσ ἀπεικάζειν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 8:3)
- τῆσ γὰρ Ἀρτέμιδοσ τῆσ ἐν Ἐκβατάνοισ, ἣν Ἀναῗτιν καλοῦσιν, ἱέρειαν ἀνέδειξεν αὐτήν, ὅπωσ ἁγνὴ διάγῃ τὸν ἐπίλοιπον βίον, οἰόμενοσ οὐ χαλεπήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ μετρίαν τινὰ καὶ παιδιᾷ μεμιγμένην ταύτην λήψεσθαι δίκην παρὰ τοῦ παιδόσ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 27 3:1)
- ταῦθ’ ὅτι μέν ἐστιν ἰσχυρὰ καὶ στιβαρὰ καὶ ἀξιωματικὰ καὶ πολὺ τὸ αὐστηρὸν ἔχει τραχύνει τε ἀλύπωσ καὶ πικραίνει μετρίωσ τὰσ ἀκοὰσ ἀναβέβληταί τε τοῖσ χρόνοισ καὶ διαβέβηκεν ἐπὶ πολὺ ταῖσ ἁρμονίαισ καὶ οὐ τὸ θεατρικὸν δὴ τοῦτο καὶ γλαφυρὸν ἐπιδείκνυται κάλλοσ ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀρχαϊκὸν ἐκεῖνο καὶ αὐστηρόν, ἅπαντεσ ἂν εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι μαρτυρήσειαν οἱ μετρίαν ἔχοντεσ αἴσθησιν περὶ λόγουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2225)
- οὐθείσ ἐστιν, ὃσ οὐχ ὁμολογήσειεν, εἰ μόνον ἔχοι μετρίαν αἴσθησιν περὶ λόγουσ καὶ μήτε βάσκανοσ εἰή μήτε δύσερίσ τισ, τοσούτῳ διαφέρειν τὴν ἀρτίωσ παρατεθεῖσαν λέξιν τῆσ προτέρασ, ὅσῳ διαλλάττει πολεμιστήρια μὲν ὅπλα πομπευτηρίων, ἀληθιναὶ δὲ ὄψεισ εἰδώλων, ἐν ἡλίῳ δὲ καὶ πόνοισ τεθραμμένα σώματα τῶν σκιὰσ καὶ ῥᾳστώνασ διωκόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 321)
- Ἀντίγονον δὲ τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Μακεδόνων ἑτερόφθαλμον ὄντα τὴν πήρωσιν προφέρων εἰσ οὐ μετρίαν ὀργὴν κατέστησε. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 14 24:2)
Synonyms
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within measure
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few
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moderate
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moderate
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enough