metreten.

Brit.

/mᵻˈtriːt/, U.S.

/məˈtrit/

Inflections: Plural metretae, metretes;

Forms:

α. Middle English metret, Middle English metreta, Middle English metrid, Middle English metride, Middle English metrith, Middle English 1800s– metrete, 1600s mettret.

β. 1800s– metretes.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin metrēta; Greek μετρητής.

Etymology: < classical Latin metrēta and its etymon ancient Greek μετρητής < μετρεῖν to measure ( < μέτρον metre n.¹) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns.

Ancient Greek History.

An ancient Greek liquid measure equivalent to about 40 litres (approx. 9 gallons).In Middle English said to be the equivalent to 2½ quarts (2.8 litres): see Middle Eng. Dict. at that entry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > ancient Greek and Roman unit > ancient Greek units

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α.

c1381 ( in W. Greenwell Boldon Bk. (1852) 10 (MED) Queringdonshire reddit 78 s. de cornagio, et iij vaccas de metride.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) John ii. 6 There weren set sixe stonun cannes [c1384 E.V. pottis; L. hydriæ]..holdynge ech tweyne ether thre metretis.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 443 Of fynest must in oon metrete.

1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 56 These Cups..helde more then two Mettrets.

1859 Biblical Repertory July 60 On what intelligible principle are metretes and denarii and stadiumns to be left in the text of the translation, with a bracketed gloss annexed, while synzagogue, and proselyte, and cohort, and centurion, and legion, are left unexplained.

1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The Attic, Macedonian, and Spanish metrete was about 40 liters... In Egypt the artaba was sometimes called a metrete.

1940 tr. Artemidoros Let. in Amer. Hist. Rev. 47 67 Three metretes of honey of the best quality.

1993 N. Cohn tr. Papias Cosmos, Chaos & World to Come (ed. 2) xi. 198 The days will come in which vines shall appear, having each ten thousand shoots,..and every grape will give five-and-twenty metretes of wine.

β. 1841 Biblical Repertory 13 293 Add to the wine three cotylae of salt for ten metretrae.1865 Biblical Repertory 37 424 This calculation assumes the equality of the Attic metretes and the Hebrew Bath.1896 G. Barlow Jesus of Nazareth 184 (note) The metretes is supposed to correspond to the Hebrew bath, which was equal to 1¹/₂ Roman amphora, or 87 gallons.1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 547/2 The metretes is the measure of the large wine-amphora and contained 864 kyathoi = 38.88 litres.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metrete
释义	metreten. Brit. /mᵻˈtriːt/, U.S. /məˈtrit/ Inflections: Plural metretae, metretes; Forms: α. Middle English metret, Middle English metreta, Middle English metrid, Middle English metride, Middle English metrith, Middle English 1800s– metrete, 1600s mettret. β. 1800s– metretes. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin metrēta; Greek μετρητής. Etymology: < classical Latin metrēta and its etymon ancient Greek μετρητής < μετρεῖν to measure ( < μέτρον metre n.¹) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns. Ancient Greek History. An ancient Greek liquid measure equivalent to about 40 litres (approx. 9 gallons).In Middle English said to be the equivalent to 2½ quarts (2.8 litres): see Middle Eng. Dict. at that entry. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > ancient Greek and Roman unit > ancient Greek units metretec1381 medimnus1590 α. c1381 ( in W. Greenwell Boldon Bk. (1852) 10 (MED) Queringdonshire reddit 78 s. de cornagio, et iij vaccas de metride. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) John ii. 6 There weren set sixe stonun cannes [c1384 E.V. pottis; L. hydriæ]..holdynge ech tweyne ether thre metretis. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 443 Of fynest must in oon metrete. 1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 56 These Cups..helde more then two Mettrets. 1859 Biblical Repertory July 60 On what intelligible principle are metretes and denarii and stadiumns to be left in the text of the translation, with a bracketed gloss annexed, while synzagogue, and proselyte, and cohort, and centurion, and legion, are left unexplained. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The Attic, Macedonian, and Spanish metrete was about 40 liters... In Egypt the artaba was sometimes called a metrete. 1940 tr. Artemidoros Let. in Amer. Hist. Rev. 47 67 Three metretes of honey of the best quality. 1993 N. Cohn tr. Papias Cosmos, Chaos & World to Come (ed. 2) xi. 198 The days will come in which vines shall appear, having each ten thousand shoots,..and every grape will give five-and-twenty metretes of wine. β. 1841 Biblical Repertory 13 293 Add to the wine three cotylae of salt for ten metretrae.1865 Biblical Repertory 37 424 This calculation assumes the equality of the Attic metretes and the Hebrew Bath.1896 G. Barlow Jesus of Nazareth 184 (note) The metretes is supposed to correspond to the Hebrew bath, which was equal to 1¹/₂ Roman amphora, or 87 gallons.1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 547/2 The metretes is the measure of the large wine-amphora and contained 864 kyathoi = 38.88 litres. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1381
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