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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

  • ἢ πρῶτον μὲν ἄν τισ ὑπίδοιτο τοῦ λόγου τούτου τὸ πολλὰσ τῶν ἐμφανῶν ἀναιρεῖν δυνάμεων, ὡσ οὐ ποιότητασ οὐδ’ ἕξεισ ἕξεων δὲ καὶ ποιοτήτων στερήσεισ, βαρύτητα μὲν κουφότητοσ καὶ σκληρότητα μαλακότητοσ τὸ μέλαν δὲ τοῦ λευκοῦ καὶ τὸ πικρὸν αξ τοῦ γλυκέοσ, καὶ ὧν ἕκαστον ἑκάστῳ πέφυκεν ἀντιδε πριιιιδο. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 21)
  • μετὰ ταῦτα ἡ διαίρεσισ ἐν τοῖσ ἀπηλλαγμένοισ τῶν παθημάτων καὶ τῶν δυνάμεων καὶ τῶν ἕξεων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 46:1)
  • ἁπλῶσ μὲν οὖν διωρίσθω τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον, ἀκριβέστερον δ’, ὅταν περὶ τῶν ἕξεων λέγωμεν τῶν ἀντικειμένων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 66:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ εἴληπται ἡ διαλογὴ τῶν ἕξεων καθ’ ἕκαστα τὰ πάθη, καὶ αἱ ὑπερβολαὶ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ, καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων ἕξεων, καθ’ ἃσ ἔχουσι κατὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον τίσ δ’ ὁ ὀρθὸσ λόγοσ, καὶ πρὸσ τίνα δεῖ ὁρ́ον ἀποβλέποντασ λέγειν τὸ μέσον, ὕστερον ἐπισκεπτέον, φανερὸν ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἠθικαὶ ἀρεταὶ καὶ κακίαι περὶ ἡδονῶν καὶ λυπῶν ὑπερβολὰσ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ εἰσί, καὶ ἡδοναὶ καὶ λῦπαι ἀπὸ τῶν εἰρημένων ἕξεων καὶ παθημάτων γίνονται. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 93:1)

Synonyms

  1. an act of having

  2. a state or habit of mind

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