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μέτριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτριος μέτριᾱ μέτριον

Structure: μετρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

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

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	μέτριος	μετρίᾱ	μέτριον
	Genitive	μετρίου	μετρίᾱς	μετρίου
	Dative	μετρίῳ	μετρίᾱͅ	μετρίῳ
	Accusative	μέτριον	μετρίᾱν	μέτριον
	Vocative	μέτριε	μετρίᾱ	μέτριον
Dual	N/A/V	μετρίω	μετρίᾱ	μετρίω
Dual	G/D	μετρίοιν	μετρίαιν	μετρίοιν
Plural	Nominative	μέτριοι	μέτριαι	μέτρια
	Genitive	μετρίων	μετριῶν	μετρίων
	Dative	μετρίοις	μετρίαις	μετρίοις
	Accusative	μετρίους	μετρίᾱς	μέτρια
	Vocative	μέτριοι	μέτριαι	μέτρια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	μέτριος μετρίου	μετριώτερος μετριωτέρου	μετριώτατος μετριωτάτου
Adverb	μετρίως	μετριώτερον	μετριώτατα

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

"ἢ ἐπὶ μετρίουσ ἐμαυτὸν ἄγω οὐ μεγαλαυχούμενοσ ἐπ’ ἐμαυτῷ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 28 3:2)
πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ μετρίουσ οὐκ ἄτοπόν ἐστι χρῆσθαι καὶ ταῖσ ἐπανορθώσεσι τῶν ἐπαίνων· (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 122)
τῶν δὲ ποιητῶν Χοιρίλον μὲν ἀεὶ περὶ αὑτὸν εἶχεν ὡσ κοσμήσοντα τὰσ πράξεισ διὰ ποιητικῆσ, Ἀντιλόχῳ δὲ ποιήσαντι μετρίουσ τινὰσ εἰσ αὐτὸν στίχουσ ἡσθεὶσ ἔδωκε πλήσασ ἀργυρίου τὸν πῖλον. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 4:2)
ἐπελθὼν Πατροκλῆσ, ἀνὴρ συνετὸσ εἶναι δοκῶν καὶ Σελεύκῳ φίλοσ πιστόσ, οὐ τὸ τῆσ δαπάνησ ἔφη πλεῖστον εἶναι τῶν Δημητρίου στρατιωτῶν τρεφομένων, ἀλλ’ ἐνδιατρίβοντα τῇ χώρᾳ Δημήτριον οὐ καλῶσ περιορᾶν αὐτόν, ὃσ ἀεὶ βιαιότατοσ ὢν καὶ μεγαλοπραγμονέστατοσ βασιλέων νῦν ἐν τύχαισ γέγονεν αἳ καὶ τοὺσ φύσει μετρίουσ ἐξάγουσι τολμᾶν καὶ ἀδικεῖν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 47 3:1)
"οὔτε δὴ τούτοισ ἐπιτερπὴσ ἡ μνήμη τῶν ἀπολελαυσμένων, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ὑπολείμματοσ ἡδονῆσ ἀμυδροῦ καὶ διακένου πολὺ τὸ οἰστρῶδεσ καὶ νύττον ἐναργοῦσ ἀναφέρουσα τῆσ ὀρέξεωσ οὔτε τοὺσ μετρίουσ καὶ σώφρονασ εἰκὸσ ἐνδιατρίβειν τῇ ἐπινοίᾳ τῶν τοιούτων, οὐδ’ ἅπερ ἔσκωπτε τὸν Καρνεάδην πράττοντα, οἱο͂ν ἐξ ἐφημερίδων ἀναλέγεσθαι, ποσάκισ Ἡδείᾳ καὶ Λεοντίῳ συνῆλθον, ἢ ποῦ Θάσιον ἔπιον ἢ ποίασ εἰκάδοσ ἐδείπνησαν πολυτελέστατα. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 4 2:13)

Synonyms

within measure
- διαμετρητός (measured out or off)
- μετρητός (measurable)
- σταθμητός (to be measured)
few
- βραχύς (few)
- ὀλιγοστός (one out of a few)
- βραχύφυλλος (with few leaves)
- παυροεπής (of few words)
moderate
- χειροήθης (tolerable)
moderate
- ἐνάρετος (virtuous)
- σωφρονικός (naturally temperate, moderate, sober)
enough
- ἐξαρκής (enough, sufficient)
- ἀρκετός (sufficient)
- ἐπάρκιος (sufficient)
- ἄρκιος (sufficient, sure, certain)

φορτικός (of the nature of a burden)
πρᾶος (soft)
ἐπιτείνω (to stretch upon or over)
γυμναστέος (one must practise)
συγγνωμονικός (inclined to pardon)
ἄτυφος (without pride or arrogance)
εὐγνώμων (of good feeling)
καταφρόνημα (contempt)
ἀφιλότιμος (without due ambition)
ἀναίσθητος (insensate)
ποτέος (drinkable)
συγγνωστός (to be pardoned)
ἐπιχειρητέος (one must attempt or attack)
πρεσβυτικός (like an old man)
φιλοθέωρος ()
φιλόθεος (loving God)
δύσερις (very quarrelsome)
ἀνεπίληπτος (not open to attack)
ἀβίωτος (not to be lived)
λυσιτελούντως (usefully)
ἄτρεπτος (unmoved)
ἰατός (curable)
ἡσυχαῖος ()
μανικός (of or for madness)
δημοκόπος (a demagogue)
εὐδιάλλακτος (easy to reconcile)
εὐηθικός (good-natured)
πλημμέλημα (a fault)
ἀνέκπληκτος (undaunted)
σωφρονικός (naturally temperate)

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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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μέτριος

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within measure

few

moderate

moderate

enough

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μέτριος

Sense

Declension

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within measure

few

moderate

moderate

enough

Related

Similar forms

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