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ἕξις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕξις ἕξεως

Structure: ἑξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/cw, fut. of e)/xw

Sense

  1. an act of having, possession
  2. a being in a certain state, a permanent condition, produced by practice, a state or habit of body, especially a good habit
  3. a state or habit of mind
  4. skill as the result of practice, experience

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἕξις έ̔ξει έ̔ξεις
Genitive έ̔ξεως έ̔ξοιν έ̔ξεων
Dative έ̔ξει έ̔ξοιν έ̔ξεσιν*
Accusative έ̔ξιν έ̔ξει έ̔ξεις
Vocative έ̔ξι έ̔ξει έ̔ξεις

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

  • τὰ δ’ ὑειά καὶ ἄρνεια κρέα ἀδιαπόνητα ταῖσ ἕξεσιν ὑπάρχοντα ῥᾷστα φθείρεται διὰ τὴν πιμελήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66 1:1)
  • ἑνὶ δὲ λόγῳ, τὸν μὴ συγγενῆ τοῦ πράγματοσ οὔτ’ ἂν εὐμάθεια ποιήσειέν ποτε οὔτε μνήμη ‐ τὴν ἀρχὴν γὰρ ἐν ἀλλοτρίαισ ἕξεσιν οὐκ ἐγγίγνεται ‐ ὥστε ὁπόσοι τῶν δικαίων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα καλὰ μὴ προσφυεῖσ εἰσιν καὶ συγγενεῖσ, ἄλλοι δὲ ἄλλων εὐμαθεῖσ ἅμα καὶ μνήμονεσ, οὐδ’ ὅσοι συγγενεῖσ, δυσμαθεῖσ δὲ καὶ ἀμνήμονεσ, οὐδένεσ τούτων μήποτε μάθωσιν ἀλήθειαν ἀρετῆσ εἰσ τὸ δυνατὸν οὐδὲ κακίασ. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 133:1)

Synonyms

  1. an act of having

  2. a state or habit of mind

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