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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) + -τρον (-tron).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mé.tron/ → /ˈme.tron/ → /ˈme.tron/
Noun
μέτρον • (métron) n (genitive μέτρου); second declension
- something used to measure: measure, rule, weight
- length, width, breadth
- (music, poetry) metre
Inflection
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References
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.