μῆκος
mekos
length
Appears 199 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
μῆκος, Dor. μᾶκος 1: εος, τό:—A. length, of a club, τόσσον ἔην μῆκος, τόσσον πάχος so large was it in length, so large in thickness, Od. 9.324; φιλότης ἴση μ. τε πλάτος τε 17.20, cf. 1.181, etc.; ἐς μῆκος 2.155; εἰς τὸ μῆκος Ge. 12.6; ἐν μήκει καὶ πλάτει καὶ βάθει Sph. 235d, cf. 3, Ph. 209a5; ἐπὶ μῆκος lengthwise, ἐπὶ μ. ἔκτασις HA 504a15, al.; κατὰ μῆκος Mete. 387a2; μ. ὁδοῦ Fr. 378, 1.72, etc.; πλοῦ 6.34; μᾶκος ἔδικε threw a long distance, O. 10(11).72: pl., μήκη καὶ βάθη καὶ πλάτη Plt. 284e, cf. Comm.Math. 26; τὰ μεγάλα μ. great lengths, Prt. 356d. b. height, of a wall, Av. 1130; of persons, stature, Od. 20.71; μῆκος in height, 11.312; εἰς μ. αὐξάνεσθαι Lac. 2.6. c. generally, μήκει in linear measurement, Tht. 147d, cf. 148a; linearity, one-dimensional magnitude, opp. ἐπίπεδον, βάθος, Lg. 817e: in Arith., in the first power, 3,4. 2. of Time, μ. χρόνου Pr. 1020; ἐν μ. χρόνου Tr. 69; ἐν χρόνου τινὸς μήκεσιν ἀπλέτοις Lg. 683a; μ. λόγου, μ. τῶν λόγων, a long speech, Eu. 201, OC 1139; ἐν μήκει λόγων διελθεῖν 4.62; μῆκος at length, εἰπέ μοι μὴ μ., ἀλλὰ σύντομα Ant. 446. 3. of Size or Degree, greatness, magnitude, ὄλβου 119; μῆκος in greatness, ἔοικεν ἄλλῃ μ. οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ Ant. 393. 4. longitude, 1.4.5, 2.1, Alm. 2.12, 260.5, etc. 5. in Prosody, length, opp. βραχύτης, Po. 1456b32, Comp. 15: pl., μήκη καὶ βραχύτητας προσῆπτε R. 400b. 6. first line of phalanx, Tact. 2.5. (From same Root as μακρός. Hence μήκιστος, Sup. of μακρός.)
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