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.
- Ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ μέντοι καὶ πάνυ πολλήν σοι εἰδέναι τὴν χάριν ὁμολογῶ ἐμοῦ γὰρ ἐπαινέσαντοσ τὸ μέτριον τοῦ σοῦ τρόπου καὶ ὅτι μηδὲν ὑπερπετὲσ μηδὲ τύφου μεστὸν ἐνεποίησέ σοι ὁ παρὼν ὄγκοσ τῶν πραγμάτων, σὺ τὰ τοιαῦτα αἰτιασαμένη τοῦ λόγου ἐπιστώσω τοῦ ἐπαίνου τὴν ἀλήθειαν τὸ γὰρ μὴ προαρπάζειν τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν ἐγκωμίων, ἀλλ’ αἰδεῖσθαι ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ μείζω ἢ κατὰ σὲ εἶναι λέγειν, μετρίασ καὶ δημοτικῆσ τινοσ διανοίασ δεῖγμά ἐστιν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 17:7)
- μάκαρεσ οἳ μετρίασ θεοῦ μετά τε σωφροσύνασ μετέ‐ σχον λέκτρων Ἀφροδίτασ, γαλανείᾳ χρησάμενοι μανιάδων οἴστρων, ὅθι δὴ δίδυμ’ Ἔρωσ ὁ χρυσοκόμασ τόξ’ ἐντείνεται χαρίτων, τὸ μὲν ἐπ’ εὐαίωνι πότμῳ, τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, strophe 11)
- ἄρτου δεομένουσ καὶ οἴκου καὶ σκέπησ μετρίασ καὶ τοῦ τυχόντοσ ὄψου παραλαβὼν ἐμπέπληκεν ἐπιθυμίασ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου καὶ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ σμαράγδων καὶ κυνῶν καὶ ἵππων, εἰσ χαλεπὰ καὶ σπάνια καὶ δυσπόριστα καὶ ἄχρηστα μεταθεὶσ ἐκ τῶν ἀναγκαίων τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 2 3:1)
- ὡσ τυραννίδα γὰρ ἤδη ἔχετε αὐτήν, ἣν λαβεῖν μὲν ἄδικον δοκεῖ εἶναι, ἀφεῖναι δὲ ἐπικίνδυνον, καὶ τὰ τούτοισ ὅμοια, ὅσα τάσ τε ἐξαλλαγὰσ τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ τῶν σχημάτων μετρίασ ἔχει καὶ οὔτε περιέργουσ οὔτε δυσπαρακολουθήτουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 47 3:3)
- ἡττηθεὶσ δὲ μεγάλῃ μάχῃ περὶ Σκότουσσαν ὑπὸ Τίτου Φλαμινίνου τότε μὲν ἔπτηξε καὶ πάντα τὰ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ἐπέτρεψε Ῥωμαίοισ, καὶ τυχὼν ἐπιτιμήσεωσ μετρίασ ἠγάπησεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 8 3:1)
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