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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

  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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀτυχήσεισ, καὶ μάλιστα μετρίων, ὡσ φήσ, δεόμενοσ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 1:4)
  • Ἰσοκράτησ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐγεννήθη μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ ὀγδοηκοστῆσ καὶ ἕκτησ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ ἄρχοντοσ Ἀθήνησι Λυσιμάχου πέμπτῳ πρότερον ἔτει τοῦ Πελοποννησιακοῦ πολέμου, δυσὶ καὶ εἴκοσιν ἔτεσι νεώτεροσ Λυσίου, πατρὸσ δὲ ἦν Θεοδώρου, τινὸσ τῶν μετρίων πολιτῶν, θεράποντασ αὐλοποιοὺσ κεκτημένου καὶ τὸν βίον ἀπὸ ταύτησ ἔχοντοσ τῆσ ἐργασίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 11)
  • καὶ ὅτι προκαλούμενοι τοὺσ ἀντιδίκουσ εἰσ διαλλαγὰσ καὶ φίλοισ τὰ πράγματα ἐπιτρέποντεσ καὶ τὰ δυνατὰ ἐλαττοῦσθαι ὑπομένοντεσ οὐδενὸσ ἠδυνήθησαν τυχεῖν τῶν μετρίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 245)
  • ταῦτα καὶ πλείω τούτων εὐξαίμεθ̓ ἄν, εἰ μὴ θέλωσι τὸ ἄγαν φίλαυτον τοῦτ̓ ἀφέντεσ ἐσ τὸ κοινὸν πλουτεῖν καὶ μεταδιδόναι ἡμῖν τῶν μετρίων. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 6:4)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἄν φθονήσειε τῷ κοινωνοῦντι καὶ διδόντι τῶν μετρίων; (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 3:5)

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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