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

  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ῥᾷόν ἐστι μεταχειρίσασθαι τὸ χαλεπώτατον μειράκιον τοῦ μετριωτάτου δήμου τίσ οὐκ ἂν φήσειεν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:1)

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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