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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠν- (sun-, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + -ος (-os, adjective suffix).
Adjective
σύμμετρος • (súmmetros) m or f (neuter σύμμετρον); second declension
- commensurate with, of like measure or size with
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “σύμμετρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σύμμετρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σύμμετρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σύμμετρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σύμμετρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “σύμμετρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- appropriate idem, page 37.
- apt idem, page 37.
- becoming idem, page 68.
- befitting idem, page 69.
- characteristic idem, page 125.
- coincident with idem, page 142.
- commensurate idem, page 147.
- congenial idem, page 160.
- congruous idem, page 160.
- consonant with idem, page 164.
- convenient idem, page 173.
- correspondent idem, page 176.
- due idem, page 255.
- felicitous idem, page 314.
- fit idem, page 323.
- happy idem, page 384.
- meet idem, page 522.
- opportune idem, page 576.
- proportionate idem, page 653.
- regular idem, page 687.
- responsive idem, page 704.
- right idem, page 714.
- seasonable idem, page 746.
- suitable idem, page 836.
- symmetrical idem, page 850.
- uniform idem, page 921.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN