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 πρὸσ ἐκεῖνα τοίνυν ἀποβλέπων μετριώτερον δῆλον ὅτι ἐπιβαλεῖσ ἡμῖν τὸν μισθόν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 19:10)
  • πρὸσ Διόσ, ἀντί μὲν δούλου με ἐλεύθερον, ἀντὶ δὲ πένητοσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ πλούσιον, ἀντὶ δὲ ἀνοήτου τε καὶ τετυφωμένου γενέσθαι μετριώτερον; (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 1:11)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν ἄνδρασ ἰδιώτασ καὶ ἀναφανδὸν τὴν ἀπαιδευσίαν ὁμολογοῦντασ τὰ τοιαῦτα ποιεῖν, μετριώτερον ἂν εἰκότωσ νομισθείη· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 24:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Νέρων ἀναμνησθεὶσ τοῦ Σενέκα μετριώτερον ἤνεγκεν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 17:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Νέρων ἀναμνησθεὶσ τοῦ Σενέκα μετριώτερον ἤνεγκεν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 6:2)

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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