Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ εἰ μὲν καλῶσ καὶ εὐθίκτωσ τῇ συντάξει, τοῦτο καὶ αὐτὸσ ἤθελον. εἰ δὲ εὐτελῶσ καὶ μετρίωσ, τοῦτο ἐφικτὸν ἦν μοι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:38)
  • πραότητοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι φέρειν μετρίωσ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ὀλιγωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ταχέωσ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τιμωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐκίνητον εἶναι πρὸσ τὰσ ὀργάσ, ἄπικρον δὲ τῷ ἤθει καὶ ἀφιλόνεικον, ἔχοντα τὸ ἠρεμαῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ στάσιμον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 15:3)
  • τοῦτο λεχθὲν οὐ μετρίωσ μου καθίκετο, καὶ ἐσιώπησα αἰσχυνθείσ, ὅτι παιδίου τινοσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἔργον ἐπεπόνθειν πιστεύσασ τοῖσ ποιηταῖσ ἀπίθανα οὕτωσ ψευδομένοισ, ὡσ μηδὲν ὑγιὲσ ἀρέσκεσθαι αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 3:3)
  • ὑφ’ ὧν ὁ πρεσβύτησ οὐ μετρίωσ ἐθορυβήθη ἐλπίζων πάντασ ἕξεσθαι αὐτοῦ καὶ μὴ προήσεσθαι τῷ πυρί, ἀλλὰ ἄκοντα δὴ καθέξειν ἐν τῷ βίῳ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 13:6)
  • ὁπότε δὲ ἐκ τούτων ἀρξάμενον ἐτόλμησε καττίτερον εἰπεῖν καὶ κάττυμα καὶ πίτταν, εἶτα ἀπερυθριᾶσαν καὶ βασίλισσαν βασίλιτταν ὀνομάζειν, οὐ μετρίωσ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἀγανακτῶ καὶ πίμπραμαι δεδιὸσ μὴ τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ τὰ σῦκα τῦκά τισ ὀνομάσῃ. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 8:1)

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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