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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

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

  • ἐφυλαξάμην, καὶ ἐπτοήθη ἡ κοιλία μου ἀπὸ φωνῆσ προσευχῆσ χειλέων μου, καὶ εἰσῆλθε τρόμοσ εἰσ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου, καὶ ὑποκάτωθέν μου ἐταράχθη ἡ ἕξισ μου. ἀναπαύσομαι ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεωσ τοῦ ἀναβῆναι εἰσ λαὸν παροικίασ μου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 3:16)
  • γὰρ ἡ τοῦ φρονεῖν ἕξισ ὁμοίωσ παραμένει τοῖσ μεθεῖσιν αὑτούσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀργίασ ἐξανιεμένη καὶ ἀναλυομένη κατὰ μικρὸν ἀεί τινα ποθεῖ φροντίδοσ μελέτην, τὸ λογιστικὸν καὶ πρακτικὸν ἐγειρούσησ καὶ διακαθαιρούσησ· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 8 4:1)
  • "οὐ μῦθοσ οὖν οὐδὲ θήρα μειρακίων λαμυρῶν καὶ προπετῶν ὁ περὶ τῆσ ἐποχῆσ λόγοσ ἐστίν, ὡσ οἰέται Κωλώτησ, ἀλλ’ ἕξισ ἀνδρῶν καὶ διάθεσισ φυλάττουσα τὸ ἀδιάπτωτον καὶ μὴ προϊεμένη ταῖσ διαβεβλημέναισ οὕτω καὶ δυστατούσαισ αἰσθήσεσι τὴν κρίσιν μηδὲ συνεξαπατωμένη τούτοισ, οἳ τὰ φαινόμενα τῶν ἀδήλων πίστιν ἔχειν φάσκουσιν, ἀπιστίαν τοσαύτην καὶ ἀσάφειαν ἐν τοῖσ φαινομένοισ ὁρῶντεσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 291)
  • "καὶ μὴν οὔτε σώματοσ ἀγύμναστοσ ἕξισ ἥλιον, οὔτ’ Ἔρωτα δύναται φέρειν ἀλύπωσ τρόποσ ἀπαιδεύτου ψυχῆσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:5)
  • ὅτε δὲ ἐστὶν εὔδηλον ὅτι ἐφ’ ἓν τοῦτο πᾶσα ἡ τῆσ λογικῆσ δυνάμεωσ ἕξισ ὡρ́μηται, δυοῖν ἀνάγκη δήπου θάτερον, ἢ μὴ ὀρθῶσ ἔχειν μηδ’ ἱκανὸν φαίνεσθαι τὸν λόγον, ἢ ὁμοῦ βέλτιστόν τε εἶναι καὶ κρατεῖν τῶν ἀκουόντων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. an act of having

  2. a state or habit of mind

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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