Ancient Greek

Noun

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

1. something used to measure: measure, rule, weight
2. length, width, breadth
3. (music) metre

Inflection

Derived terms

• μετρέω ‎(metréō)
• μετρικός ‎(metrikós)
• μέτριος ‎(métrios)

Descendants

• English: metron
• Latin: metrum
• Modern Greek: μέτρο ‎(métro)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • allowance idem, page 23.
  • 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.