μέτριος?
First/Second declension Adjective;
자동번역
Transliteration: metrios
Principal Part:
μέτριος
μέτρια
μέτριον
Structure:
μετρι
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
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
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.
- 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)
- ὕπνος ὑγιείας ἐπὶ ἐντέρῳ μετρίῳ, ἀνέστη πρωΐ, καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ. πόνος ἀγρυπνίας καὶ χολέρας καὶ στρόφος μετὰ ἀνδρὸς ἀπλήστου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 31:20)
- 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)
- μᾶλλον δὲ πολὺ μετριώτερος ἐκεῖνος, ἔρωτι μὲν ἁλούς, ὡς ἔφασκεν ἀπολογούμενος, ἑκὼν δὲ μάλα εὐψύχως ἐς τὸ πῦρ ἁλλόμενος, καίτοι ἐλεούντων αὐτὸν ἤδη Κροτωνιατῶν καὶ ἐνδιδόντων φυγεῖν, εἰ βούλοιτο. (Lucian, Apologia 11:3)
- πρὸ δὲ τῶν ὅλων μεμνῆσθαι χρὴ τοὺς ἐπιτιμῶντας, ὅτι οὐ σοφῷ ὄντι μοι - εἰ δή τις καὶ ἄλλος ἐστί που σοφός - ἐπιτιμήσουσιν, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ πολλοῦ δήμου, λόγους μὲν ἀσκήσαντι καὶ τὰ μέτρια ἐπαινουμένῳ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς, πρὸς δὲ τὴν ἄκραν ἐκείνην τῶν κορυφαίων ἀρετὴν οὐ πάνυ γεγυμνασμένῳ: (Lucian, Apologia 34:1)
- εἰ μέτριος εἰή μέχρι δεῦρο, ἀνεκτός, ἀλλ οὐκ ἀνήσει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:3)
- ναύταις γὰρ ἢν μὲν μέτριος ᾖ χειμὼν φέρειν, προθυμίαν ἔχουσι σωθῆναι πόνων, ὁ μὲν παρ οἰάχ, ὁ δ ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν βεβώς, ὁ δ ἄντλον εἴργων ναός: (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:10)
- ἀλλ αὐτὸς ὁ κρινόμενος νὴ Δία μέτριος τὸν τρόπον, καὶ προγόνων χρηστῶν, καὶ πολλὰ ἡμᾶς καὶ ἰδία καὶ δημοσίᾳ καλὰ εἰργασμένος, ὥστε διὰ ταῦτ ἄξιόν ἐστιν αὐτοῦ φείσασθαι· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 11:1)
- ὃν οὐχ εἷς ἀνὴρ ἀλλὰ πᾶσα ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ζητήσασα ἀποπέφαγκε χρήματ ἔχειν καθ ὑμῶν, ὃς οὐσίαν ἔχων πολλὴν καὶ παίδων ἀρρένων οὐκ ὄντων αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου δεόμενος ὧν <ἂν> ἄνθρωπος μέτριος δεηθείη, οὐκ ἀπέσχετο χρημάτων διδομένων κατὰ τῆς πατρίδος, οὐδ ἀπεκρύψατο τὴν ἔμφυτον πονηρίαν, ἀλλ ἀνεῖλε πᾶσαν τὴν γεγενημένην αὑτῷ πρὸς ὑμᾶς πίστιν, καὶ οἷς πρότερον ἔφη διαφέρεσθαι, πρὸς τούτους ἔταξεν αὑτόν, καὶ ἐξήλεγξεν αὑτοῦ τὴν προσποίητον καλοκαγαθίαν, ὅτι ψευδὴς ἦν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 21:1)
- μέτριος, ἐπιεικής, ἁρμόδιος τῷ βίῳ, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, διπλοῦς. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 25:6)
Synonyms
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within measure
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few
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moderate
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moderate
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enough
