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τιμοκρατία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιμοκρατία

Structure: τιμοκρατι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: krate/w

Sense

  1. a state in which the love of honour is the ruling principle
  2. a state in which honours are distributed according to property, timocracy

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

  • τούτων δὲ βελτίστη μὲν ἡ βασιλεία, χειρίστη δ’ ἡ τιμοκρατία. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 99:2)
  • πλήθουσ γὰρ βούλεται καὶ ἡ τιμοκρατία εἶναι, καὶ ἴσοι πάντεσ οἱ ἐν τῷ τιμήματι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 104:4)
  • φέρε τοίνυν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, πειρώμεθα λέγειν τίνα τρόπον τιμοκρατία γένοιτ’ ἂν ἐξ ἀριστοκρατίασ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 38:1)

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

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