Hellas Alive Dictionary - μετριος

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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

ὕπνοσ ὑγιείασ ἐπὶ ἐντέρῳ μετρίῳ, ἀνέστη πρωί̈, καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ. πόνοσ ἀγρυπνίασ καὶ χολέρασ καὶ στρόφοσ μετὰ ἀνδρὸσ ἀπλήστου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 31:20)
ἢν οὖν ἡμᾶσ νομίσητε θεούσ, ἕξετε χρῆσθαι μάντεσι Μούσαισ αὔραισ ὡρ́αισ χειμῶνι θέρει μετρίῳ πνίγει· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, pnigos1)
τοῦ γὰρ καλοῦ καιρὸν οἰκεῖον εἶναι καὶ ὡρ́αν, μᾶλλον δὲ ὅλωσ τὰ καλὰ τῶν αἰσχρῶν τῷ μετρίῳ διαφέρειν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 36 2:2)
οὐ μὴν ὅ γε δῆμοσ τὴν ὀργὴν ἅπασαν ἀφῆκεν ἐνταῦθα, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἀπαλλαγεὶσ τῶν Ἑρμοκοπιδῶν ὥσπερ σχολάζοντι τῷ θυμῷ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην ὅλοσ ἐρρύη, καὶ τέλοσ ἀπέστειλε τὴν Σαλαμινίαν ἐπ’ αὐτόν, οὐ φαύλωσ αὐτό γε τοῦτο προστάξασ, μὴ βιάζεσθαι μηδ’ ἅπτεσθαι τοῦ σώματοσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ μετρίῳ λόγῳ χρῆσθαι κελεύοντασ ἀκολουθεῖν ἐπὶ κρίσιν καὶ πείθειν τὸν δῆμον. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 5:1)
τῆσ δὲ γε τῶν ἐπιεικῶν καὶ ἐλλογίμων οὐδ’ αὐτὸσ καταφρονεῖ πλοῦτον δὲ καὶ δόξαν ἡγεμονικὴν καὶ δύναμιν ἐν φιλίαισ οὐ διώκει, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ φεύγει ταῦτα μετρίῳ προσόντ’ ἤθει οὐδὲ γὰρ τοὺσ καλοὺσ τῶν νέων διώκει καὶ ὡραίουσ, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ εὐαγώγουσ καὶ κοσμίουσ καὶ φιλομαθεῖσ· (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 2 15:1)

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)

Similar forms

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

Examples

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within measure

few

moderate

moderate

enough

Related

Similar forms

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