ΜΕΤΡΙΑ, μετρια
METRIA, metria
Sounds Like: MEH-tree-ah
Translations: moderate, reasonable, temperate, modest, a moderate, a reasonable
From the root: ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is moderate, reasonable, or temperate in quantity, degree, or behavior. It implies a sense of balance and appropriateness, avoiding extremes. It can be used to describe a person's character or the nature of a situation.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3357 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 1:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 7:222
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΕΤΡΙΑΝ — moderate, reasonable, modest, a moderate, a reasonable, a modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΙ — moderate, reasonable, fair, modest, temperate, moderate ones, reasonable ones
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΙΣ — to moderate, to reasonable, to fair, to modest, to temperate, for moderate, for reasonable, for fair, for modest, for temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΝ — moderate, reasonable, modest, sufficient, a moderate thing, a reasonable thing
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΣ — moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate, a moderate one, a modest one
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΥ — (of) moderate, (of) modest, (of) reasonable, (of) temperate, (of) fair
- ΜΕΤΡΙΟΥΣ — moderate, a moderate, reasonable, a reasonable, modest, a modest, temperate, a temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩ — moderate, suitable, modest, reasonable, a moderate, a suitable, a modest, a reasonable, moderately, suitably, modestly, reasonably
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΝ — of moderate, of reasonable, of modest, of ordinary, of fair, of temperate
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΣ — moderately, in moderation, reasonably, fairly, tolerably
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΑΤΩΝ — most moderate, most reasonable, most temperate, most modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΑ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest, more restrained
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, a more moderate thing
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΣ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΟΥΣ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest
- ΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΩΝ — more moderate, more reasonable, more temperate, more modest, of more moderate things
- ΤΩΝΜΕΤΡΙΩΤΕΡΩΝ — (of) the more moderate, (of) the more reasonable, (of) the more temperate
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