σιτομέτριον,
σιτομετριου,
τό (Attic writers said
τόν σῖτον μέτρειν; out of which later writers formed the compound
σιτομέτρειν,
Genesis 47:12,(14); Polybius 4, 63, 10; Diodorus 19, 50; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 7; σιτομετρία, Diodorus 2, 41; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 383; Winer's Grammar, 25)), "a measured 'portion of' grain or 'food'": Luke 12:42. (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)
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