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μετριότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετριότης μετριότητος

Structure: μετριοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from me/trios

Sense

  1. moderation, moderation
  2. a middle condition

Declension

Third 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.

Examples

  • ὅτι δεῖ μὴ τυραννικὸν ἀλλ’ οἰκονόμον καὶ βασιλικὸν εἶναι φαίνεσθαι τοῖσ ἀρχομένοισ καὶ μὴ σφετεριστὴν ἀλλ’ ἐπίτροπον, καὶ τὰσ μετριότητασ τοῦ βίου διώκειν, μὴ τὰσ ὑπερβολάσ, ἔτι δὲ τοὺσ μὲν γνωρίμουσ καθομιλεῖν, τοὺσ δὲ πολλοὺσ δημαγωγεῖν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 322:1)

Synonyms

  1. moderation

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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