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χάρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάρις χάριτος

Structure: χαριτ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xai/rw

Sense

  1. beauty, elegance, charm, grace
  2. A favourable disposition towards someone: grace, favor, goodwill
  3. A voluntary act of goodwill
  4. gratitude, thanks
  5. influence (opposite force)
  6. gratification, delight

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

  • ἀλλὰ ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶσ ἐν χάριτι ἐνώπιον τῶν βασιλέων Περσῶν δοῦναι ἡμῖν τροφὴν (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 8:77)
  • ὅτι οὐ τῇ ἐμαυτοῦ χάριτι, ἀλλὰ τῇ θελήσει τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἦλθον, ὅθεν εὐλογεῖτε αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 12:18)
  • χάρισ ἐπὶ χάριτι γυνὴ αἰσχυντηρά, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι σταθμὸσ πᾶσ ἄξιοσ ἐγκρατοῦσ ψυχῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 26:15)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῇ τοῦ λέγοντοσ χάριτι δεῖ συνεκπίπτειν τὴν τῆσ πατρίδοσ σωτηρίαν. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 8:3)
  • ἣ μὲν γὰρ ἀφελήσ τε καὶ ἠθικὴ μᾶλλόν ἐστι σύγκειταί τε φυσικώτερον καὶ ἐσχημάτισται ἁπλούστερον ἡδονῇ τε καὶ χάριτι πολλῇ κεχορήγηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33)

Synonyms

  1. beauty

  2. A favourable disposition towards someone

  3. gratitude

  4. influence

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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