μέτρον

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) + -τρον (-tron).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.tron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tron/

Noun

μέτρον • (métron) n (genitive μέτρου); second declension

something used to measure: measure, rule, weight
length, width, breadth
(music, poetry) metre

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μέτρον; τοῦ μέτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μέτρον tò métron	τὼ μέτρω tṑ métrō	τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ tà métra
Genitive	τοῦ μέτρου toû métrou	τοῖν μέτροιν toîn métroin	τῶν μέτρων tôn métrōn
Dative	τῷ μέτρῳ tôi métrōi	τοῖν μέτροιν toîn métroin	τοῖς μέτροις toîs métrois
Accusative	τὸ μέτρον tò métron	τὼ μέτρω tṑ métrō	τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ tà métra
Vocative	μέτρον métron	μέτρω métrō	μέτρᾰ métra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

-μετρία (-metría)
μετρικός (metrikós)
μέτριος (métrios)
μετρώ (metrṓ)
τετρᾰ́μετρος (tetrámetros)

Descendants

Greek: μέτρο (métro)
→ English: metron
→ Latin: metrum
- → Dutch: metrum
  - → Indonesian: metrum
- → French: mètre (see there for further descendants)
- → German: Metrum
- → Luxembourgish: Metrum
- → Old Irish: metar
  - Irish: meadar
    - → English: mether, medar, meather, madder
- → Italian: metro
- → Polish: metrum
- Spanish: miedro

Further reading

“μέτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μέτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μέτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μέτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
μέτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“μέτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3358 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- allowance idem, page 25.
- bound idem, page 90.
- compass idem, page 150.
- degree idem, page 206.
- dimension idem, page 225.
- gauge idem, page 355.
- length idem, page 485.
- limit idem, page 492.
- measure idem, page 520.
- measurement idem, page 521.
- metre idem, page 527.
- proportion idem, page 653.
- quantity idem, page 663.
- restriction idem, page 706.
- size idem, page 780.
- stint idem, page 818.
- verse idem, page 948.

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