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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

  • οἷσ δ’ ἂν πρὸσ τῇ δόξῃ τῇ θεῶν ἔρημα εἶναι πάντα ἀκράτειαί τε ἡδονῶν καὶ λυπῶν προσπέσωσι, μνῆμαί τε ἰσχυραὶ καὶ μαθήσεισ ὀξεῖαι παρῶσι, τὸ μὲν μὴ νομίζειν θεοὺσ ἀμφοῖν ἂν ἐνυπάρχοι κοινὸν πάθοσ, τῇ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων λώβῃ τὸ μὲν ἐλάττω, τὸ δὲ πλείω κακὰ ἐργάζοιτ’ ἄν. (Plato, Laws, book 10 144:1)

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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