ἕξις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, to remain, to be”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hék.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ek.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈek.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈek.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈek.sis/
Noun
ἕξῐς • (héxis) f (genitive ἕξεως); third declension
- an act of having, possession
- a being in a certain state, a permanent condition, produced by practice
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἕξῐς hē héxis |
τὼ ἕξει tṑ héxei |
αἱ ἕξεις hai héxeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἕξεως tês héxeōs |
τοῖν ἑξέοιν toîn hexéoin |
τῶν ἕξεων tôn héxeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἕξει têi héxei |
τοῖν ἑξέοιν toîn hexéoin |
ταῖς ἕξεσῐ / ἕξεσῐν taîs héxesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἕξῐν tḕn héxin |
τὼ ἕξει tṑ héxei |
τᾱ̀ς ἕξεις tā̀s héxeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἕξῐ héxi |
ἕξει héxei |
ἕξεις héxeis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
Descendants
- Greek: έξη (éxi)
Further reading
- “ἕξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἕξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἕξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G1838 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- condition idem, page 157.
- disposition idem, page 237.
- habit idem, page 380.
- propensity idem, page 653.
- quality idem, page 663.
- state idem, page 812.