degree

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

measure: P. and V. μέτρον, τό.

limit: P. and V. ὅρος, ὁ.

amount: P. and V. πλῆθος, τό.

both in warmth and cold there are degrees both of more and less: P. ἐν τε τῷ θερμοτέρῳ καὶ ψυχροτέρῳ τὸ μᾶλλον τε καὶ ἧσσον ἔνι (Plato, Philoctetes 24B).

to come to such a degree of: P. and V. εἰς τοσοῦτο ἀφικνεῖσθαι or ἥκειν (gen.).

to the last degree: P. εἰς τὸ ἔσχατον, V. εἰς τοὔσχατον.

by degrees: Ar. and P. κατὰ μικρόν, P. κατ' ὀλίγον, κατὰ βραχύ.

substantive

rank: P. and V. τάξις, ἡ, ἀξίωμα, τό.

high degree, nobility: P. and V. εὐγένεια, ἡ, γενναιότης, ἡ, εὐδοξία, ἡ, τιμή, ἡ, δόξα, ἡ.

of high degree, adj.: P. and V. γενναῖος, εὐγενής (Plato), εὔδοξος.

low degree, subs.; P. and V. δυσγένεια, ἡ (Plato), ἀδοξία, ἡ.

of low degree, adj.: P. ἄδοξος, Ar. and V. δυσγενής, P. and V. ἀδόκιμος.

degree of relationship, subs.: Ar. and P. ἀγχιστεία, ἡ (see Isae. 83), V. ἀγχιστεῖα, τά (Sophocles, Antigone 174).