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μεσότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσότης μεσότητος

Structure: μεσοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/sos

Sense

  1. a middle or central position
  2. a mean between two extremes

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἅπασαν ἀρετὴν μεσότητι γίνεσθαι ῥητέον· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 5 9:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἅπασαν ἀρετὴν μεσότητι γίνεσθαι ῥητέον ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν ἀπροσδεὴσ τοῦ ἀλόγου καὶ περὶ τὸν εἰλικρινῆ καὶ ἀπαθῆ νοῦν συνισταμένη σοφία αὐτοτελήσ τίσ ἐστιν ἀκρότησ τοῦ λόγου καὶ δύναμισ, ᾗ τὸ θειότατον ἐγγίνεται τῆσ ἐπιστήμησ καὶ μακαριώτατον· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 5 5:3)
  • τὸ γὰρ μέτριον καὶ σύμμετρον ὁρίζεται μεσότητι. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 2 7:1)
  • μᾶλλον γὰρ δεῖ τῷ ἐν μεσότητι ὄντι ἀρέσκειν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 139:1)
  • ἔστιν ἄρα ἡ ἀρετὴ ἕξισ προαιρετική, ἐν μεσότητι οὖσα τῇ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, ὡρισμένῃ λόγῳ καὶ ᾧ ἂν ὁ φρόνιμοσ ὁρίσειεν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 65:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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