metreta

metreta

1. Alternative form of metrete.

metreta f (plural metrete)

1. metrete

• marette, metterà, tremate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛˈtreː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [meˈt̪rɛː.t̪a]

metrēta f (genitive metrētae); first declension

1. metrete
2. tun, cask
3. (unit of weight) metric ton
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Statio spatialis Sinensium praecipitavit [1], Nuntii Latini 6.4.2018:

     Illa statio quidem erat pondo octo metretarum, sed maiore parte eius in atmosphaera exusta, paucissima scruta in oceanum ceciderunt.

     In fact, the station weighed eight metric tons, but most of it was burnt up in the atmosphere, and only very small bits came down in the ocean.

First-declension noun.

• “metreta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “metreta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "metreta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• metreta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.