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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ὁ θεὸσ διέστησεν οὐδὲ διῴκισε τὴν οὐσίαν, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ διεστῶσαν αὐτὴν καὶ φερομένην χωρὶσ ἐν ἀκοσμίαισ τοσαύταισ παραλαβὼν, ἔταξε καὶ συνήρμοσε δι’ ἀναλογίασ καὶ μεσότητοσ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 379)
  • "καὶ οὐ μόνησ ὡσ ἐοίκε κατ’ Ἐμπεδοκλέα τῆσ δάφνησ τῶν φύλλων ἀπὸ πάμπαν ἔχεσθαι χρή, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων φείδεσθαι δένδρων ἁπάντων καὶ μὴ κοσμεῖν ἑαυτοὺσ ταῖσ ἐκείνων ἀκοσμίαισ, βίᾳ καὶ παρὰ φύσιν τὰ φύλλα συλῶντασ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 7:8)

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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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