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σύμμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύμμετρος σύμμετρον

Structure: συμμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. commensurate with, exactly fitting, being of like age with, coincident with
  2. commensurable
  3. in measure with, proportionable, exactly suitable
  4. in right measure, in due proportion, symmetrical
  5. fitting, meet, due, within fit distance
  6. in due time

Examples

  • ἀλλ̓ ἀπὸ τρίτου μὲν ἔτουσ ἐφίεσθαι ἐν ὡρ́ᾳ ἂν εἰή τῇ συμμέτρῳ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 26 4:3)
  • τὰ Σκυθικὰ δὲ σημεῖά ἐστιν ἐπὶ κοντῶν ἐν μήκει συμμέτρῳ δράκοντεσ ἀπαιωρούμενοι. (Arrian, chapter 35 5:1)
  • ἄτλαντέσ τε περιέτρεχον τὴν ναῦν ἐκτὸσ ἑξαπήχεισ, οἳ τοὺσ ὄγκουσ ὑπειλήφεσαν τοὺσ ἀνωτάτω καὶ τὸ τρίγλυφον, πάντεσ ἐν διαστήματι συμμέτρῳ βεβῶτεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 42 3:1)
  • τῷ αἵματι θερμοῦ συμμέτρῳ γίνεσθαι, τῆ δὲ παντελεῖ θάνατον. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:1)
  • καὶ ὅσα λέγω, ἔφη, ἐγώ, πάντα οὐκ ἐν πολλῷ τινι μείζονι χώρᾳ ἔκειτο ἢ ἐν δεκακλίνῳ στέγῃ συμμέτρῳ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 14:1)

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

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