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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

  • μετὰ πόσησ ἀκριβείασ ἔκρινασ τοὺσ υἱούσ σου, ὧν τοῖσ πατράσιν ὅρκουσ καὶ συνθήκασ ἔδωκασ ἀγαθῶν ὑποσχέσεων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:21)
  • περὶ ἀκριβείασ ζυγοῦ καὶ σταθμίων, περὶ κτήσεωσ πολλῶν καὶ ὀλίγων, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 42:4)
  • Οὐκ ᾔδεισ, ὅσησ ἐδεῖτο ἀκριβείασ τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ὡσ, εἰ βραχύ τισ ἐκβαίη τῆσ ὁδοῦ, οἴχεται πάντα; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:4)
  • τοῦ δ’ Ἀριστοτέλουσ τεθαύμακα, ὃν πολυθρύλητον πεποιήκασιν οἱ σοφοὶ οὗτοι, καλέ μου Δημόκριτε καὶ σὺ τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ πρεσβεύεισ ὡσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων φιλοσόφων τε καὶ ῥητόρων τῆσ ἀκριβείασ, πότε μαθὼν ἢ παρά τίνοσ ἀνελθόντοσ ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ Πρωτέωσ ἢ Νηρέωσ, τί ποιοῦσιν οἱ ἰχθύεσ ἢ πῶσ κοιμῶνται ἢ πῶσ διαιτῶνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 471)
  • ἴστω τοίνυν ὁ Ζεὺσ ὁ Φίλιοσ, ἦ μὴν ὁπόσα, ἂν λέγω πρὸσ σὲ ἢ αὐτὸσ εἰδὼσ ἢ παρ’ ἄλλων ὁπόσον οἱο͂́ν τε ἦν δι’ ἀκριβείασ ἐκπυνθανόμενοσ ἐρεῖν, μηδὲν παρ’ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπιτραγῳδῶν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 12:1)

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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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