The corpus record — Latin

metrum

metrum · n

a measure

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 10 · 7.9/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Letters 5 · 0.77/10k
Institutio Oratoria 11 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mē^trum — Lewis & Short

mē^trum, i, n., = me/tron,

I a measure; in partic., a poetical measure, metre; a verse (post-Aug.): rhythmi, id est numeri, spatio temporum constant: metra etiam ordine: ideoque alterum esse quantitatis videtur, alterum qualitatis, Quint. 9, 4, 46: metri necessitate cogi, id. 8, 6, 17; 1, 6, 2: metri causā, Gell. 4, 17, 9: Tibulli, i. e. elegiac metre, Mart. 4, 6, 4: exceptis metris Vergilii, i. e. verses, Col. 3, 10, 20 dub.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. metrum (scan p. 426; entry #6821).

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