ἐγκράτεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐγκρᾰτής (enkratḗs, “possession, power over”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eŋ.krá.teː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eŋˈkra.ti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
Noun
ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ • (enkráteia) f (genitive ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς); first declension
- mastery over
- Plato, The Republic 390B
- Plato, The Republic 430E
- Isocrates, Collected Works 6C
- Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.1
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 7.4.6
- self-control
- Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.5.1
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ; τῆς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ hē enkráteia | τὼ ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ tṑ enkrateíā | αἱ ἐγκρᾰ́τειαι hai enkráteiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς tês enkrateíās | τοῖν ἐγκρᾰτείαιν toîn enkrateíain | τῶν ἐγκρᾰτειῶν tôn enkrateiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐγκρᾰτείᾳ têi enkrateíāi | τοῖν ἐγκρᾰτείαιν toîn enkrateíain | ταῖς ἐγκρᾰτείαις taîs enkrateíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰν tḕn enkráteian | τὼ ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ tṑ enkrateíā | τᾱ̀ς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς tā̀s enkrateíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ enkráteia | ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ enkrateíā | ἐγκρᾰ́τειαι enkráteiai | ||||||||||
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References
- “ἐγκράτεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐγκράτεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐγκράτεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐγκράτεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1466 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abstemiousness idem, page 4.
- abstinence idem, page 4.
- chastity idem, page 127.
- continence idem, page 168.
- control idem, page 170.
- mastery idem, page 517.
- repression idem, page 698.
- restraint idem, page 705.
- self-control idem, page 750.
- self-restraint idem, page 751.
- sobriety idem, page 790.
- temperance idem, page 860.