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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: ἐγκρατής

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ἐγκρατής
May 1st 2013, 01:03


Latest revision as of 01:03, 1 May 2013

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[edit] Ancient Greek

[edit] Etymology

From ἐν (en, "in") + κράτος (kratos, "power")

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

ἐγκρατής m, ἐγκρατής f, ἐγκρατές n; third declension; (enkratēs)

  1. in possession of power
  2. holding fast
    1. stout, strong
  3. (with genitive) having possession of a thing, master of it
    1. master of oneself, self-controlling, self-disciplined
      • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato?, Definitions, 415D
      • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 7.4,4
  4. (adverbial) with a strong hand, by force
    1. with self-control, temperately

[edit] Inflection

    Third declension of ἐγκρατής, ἐγκρατές

[edit] References

  • ἐγκρατής in A Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940

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