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ἀκοσμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκοσμία ἀκοσμίας

Structure: ἀκοσμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from a)/kosmos

Sense

  1. disorder, extravagance, disorderliness, disorderly conduct

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ τῇ ἀκολασίᾳ ἀταξία, ἀναίδεια, ἀκοσμία, τρυφή, ῥᾳθυμία, ἀμέλεια, ὀλιγωρία, ἔκλυσισ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 34:1)
  • τίσ ποτ’ ἐν πύλαισι θόρυβοσ καὶ λόγων ἀκοσμία; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees2)
  • ἀκοσμία γὰρ ἦν τὰ πρὸ τῆσ τοῦ κόσμου γενέσεωσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 5:1)
  • ἀκοσμία δ’ οὐκ ἀσώματοσ οὐδ’ ἀκίνητοσ οὐδ’ ἄψυχοσ ἀλλ’ ἄμορφον μὲν καὶ ἀσύστατον τὸ σωματικὸν ἔμπληκτον δὲ καὶ ἄλογον τὸ κινητικὸν ἔχουσα τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἀναρμοστία ψυχῆσ οὐκ ἐχούσησ λόγον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 6:1)
  • ἐκ δὲ τούτου τραπόμενοι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐχρῶντο λοιδορίαισ, καὶ τὸ θέατρον ἀκοσμία κατεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 13 3:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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