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ἀκράτεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκράτεια

Structure: ἀκρατει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: a)krath/s

Sense

  1. want of power, debility
  2. incontinence, want of self-control

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

  • περὶ μὲν τῆσ ἀκρατείασ οὐδέν· (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 12:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὡσ τὸ πολὺ πέφυκεν ἀμελεῖν αὑτῶν τὰ ἀνδράποδα καὶ οὐ προσέχειν ἐν ταῖσ νόσοισ, τὸ μέν τι ὑπὸ ἀκρατείασ, τὸ δὲ ἡγούμενα, εἴ τι πάθοι, τοὺσ δεσπότασ ζημιώσεσθαι, οὐχ αὑτούσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 11:2)
  • ὠφελιμωτέρουσ ἀεὶ τοὺσ ἐκγόνουσ γίγνεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ σκότου μετὰ δεινῆσ ἀκρατείασ γεγονώσ. (Plato, Republic, book 5 280:1)

Synonyms

  1. want of power

  2. incontinence

Related

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

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