ἐγκράτεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐγκρᾰτής (enkratḗs, “possession, power over”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eŋ.krá.teː.a/ → /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/ → /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eŋ.krá.teː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eŋˈkra.ti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/

Noun

ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ • (enkráteia) f (genitive ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς); first declension

1. mastery over
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 390B
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 430E
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 6C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 7.4.6
2. self-control
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.5.1

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ; τῆς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2024)
• 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^[1], 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.