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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

  • καὶ προσῆλθον ἑνὶ τῶν ἑστηκότων καὶ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ἐζήτουν παρ’ αὐτοῦ μαθεῖν περὶ πάντων τούτων, καὶ εἶπέ μοι τὴν ἀκρίβειαν καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν τῶν λόγων ἐγνώρισέ μοι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 7:16)
  • ἔπειτα τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τὴν διαλέκτου τῆσ τότε συνήθουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 112)
  • ἰδίαν δὲ περὶ τοῦ ῥήτοροσ πραγματείαν συνταττόμενοσ, ἐν ᾗ τά τε ἄλλα δηλωθήσεταί μοι καὶ τίνεσ εἰσὶν αὐτοῦ λόγοι γνήσιοι, τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ἐν ἐκείνοισ καὶ περὶ τοῦδε ἀποδοῦναι πειράσομαι τοῦ λόγου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 2:2)
  • ὁ Ζεῦξισ ἐκεῖνοσ ἄριστοσ γραφέων γενόμενοσ τὰ δημώδη καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγραφεν, ἢ ὅσα πάνυ ὀλίγα, ἡρ́ωασ ἢ θεοὺσ ἢ πολέμουσ, ἀεὶ δὲ καινοποιεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο καὶ τι ἀλλόκοτον ἂν καὶ ξένον ἐπινοήσασ ἐπ̓ ἐκείνῳ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῆσ τέχνησ ἐπεδείκνυτο· (Lucian, Zeuxis 5:2)

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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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