ἄξιος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
According to some scholars, ἄγω (ágō) + -τιος (-tios), with the verb in the sense "draw down (in the scale)", hence "weigh, import". Beekes doubts this. Compare the meanings again of weighing in Latin exāmen of same root.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ák.si.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈak.si.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈak.si.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈak.si.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈak.si.os/
Adjective edit
ᾰ̓́ξῐος • (áxios) m (feminine ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓́ξῐον); first/second declension
- counterbalancing, weighing as much as, of like value
- Iliad 23.885:
- νῦν δ’ οὐδ’ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος
- we [all of us] are not worth as much as one Hector
- νῦν δ’ οὐδ’ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος
- Iliad 23.885:
- worthy, fit
Declension edit
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓́ξῐος áxios |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ axíā |
ᾰ̓́ξῐον áxion |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ axíā |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓́ξῐοι áxioi |
ᾰ̓́ξῐαι áxiai |
ᾰ̓́ξῐᾰ áxia | |||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓ξῐ́ου axíou |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱς axíās |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ου axíou |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οιν axíoin |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́αιν axíain |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οιν axíoin |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ων axíōn |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ων axíōn |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ων axíōn | |||||
Dative | ᾰ̓ξῐ́ῳ axíōi |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾳ axíāi |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ῳ axíōi |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οιν axíoin |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́αιν axíain |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οιν axíoin |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οις axíois |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́αις axíais |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́οις axíois | |||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓́ξῐον áxion |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱν axíān |
ᾰ̓́ξῐον áxion |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ axíā |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ους axíous |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱς axíās |
ᾰ̓́ξῐᾰ áxia | |||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́ξῐε áxie |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ axíā |
ᾰ̓́ξῐον áxion |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ axíā |
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ω axíō |
ᾰ̓́ξῐοι áxioi |
ᾰ̓́ξῐαι áxiai |
ᾰ̓́ξῐᾰ áxia | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓ξῐ́ως axíōs |
ᾰ̓ξῐώτερος axiṓteros |
ᾰ̓ξῐώτᾰτος axiṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ἀντάξιος (antáxios)
- ἀξία (axía)
- ἀξιοδάκρυτος (axiodákrutos)
- ἀξιοεργός (axioergós)
- ἀξιοκαταφρόνητος (axiokataphrónētos)
- ἀξιόμορφος (axiómorphos)
- ἀξιοπρεπής (axioprepḗs)
- ἀξιοτίμητος (axiotímētos)
- ἀξιοφανής (axiophanḗs)
- ἀξιοφίλητος (axiophílētos)
- ἀξιόχρεως (axiókhreōs)
- ἀξιόω (axióō)
Descendants edit
Interjection edit
ἄξιος • (áxios)
- (Koine, Christianity) Acclamation confirming the election of a Christian bishop or patriarch, (literally) "Worthy!" [from c. 4th century]
Further reading edit
- “ἄξιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄξιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄξιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄξιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄξιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄξιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄξιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G514 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.