συμμετρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”) + -ία (-ía), from σῠν- (sun-, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sym.me.trí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sym.mɛˈtri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sym.meˈtri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sym.meˈtri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /si.meˈtri.a/
Noun
σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ • (summetríā) f (genitive σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- commensurability
- symmetry, due proportion
- a woman's robe without a train
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ hē summetríā |
τὼ σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ tṑ summetríā |
αἱ σῠμμετρῐ́αι hai summetríai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱς tês summetríās |
τοῖν σῠμμετρῐ́αιν toîn summetríain |
τῶν σῠμμετρῐῶν tôn summetriôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠμμετρῐ́ᾳ têi summetríāi |
τοῖν σῠμμετρῐ́αιν toîn summetríain |
ταῖς σῠμμετρῐ́αις taîs summetríais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱν tḕn summetríān |
τὼ σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ tṑ summetríā |
τᾱ̀ς σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s summetríās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ summetríā |
σῠμμετρῐ́ᾱ summetríā |
σῠμμετρῐ́αι summetríai | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría)
Descendants
Further reading
- συμμετρία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συμμετρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- proportion idem, page 653.
- regularity idem, page 687.
- symmetry idem, page 850.
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