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ἀκρίβεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρίβεια

Structure: ἀκριβει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: a)kribh/s

Sense

  1. exactness, minute accuracy, precision, with minuteness or precision, perfect condition
  2. parsimony, frugality

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

  • τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦσιν αἱ τῶν ἁρμονιῶν ἀκρίβειαι χρόνον αἰσθητὸν οὐδένα τὸν μεταξὺ τῶν ὀνομάτων περιλαμβάνουσαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 234)
  • τούτων δὲ τὸ μὲν αἱ τῶν ἁρμονιῶν ἀκρίβειαι ποιοῦσι, τὸ δ’ αἱ τῶν γραμμάτων δυνάμεισ οἰκείωσ ἐχόντων πρὸσ ἄλληλα ταῖσ κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ συμπαθείαισ, ὑπὲρ ὧν ἑτέρασ ἐπιστήμησ ἡ θεωρία. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 40 2:3)

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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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