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ἐγκρατής
ἐγκρατής
Ancient Greek
Adjective
ἐγκρατής • (enkratḗs) m, f (neuter ἐγκρατές); third declension
- in possession of power
- holding fast
- (with genitive) having possession of a thing, master of it
- master of oneself, self-controlling, self-disciplined
- Plato, Definitions 415.D
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- (adverbial) with a strong hand, by force
- with self-control, temperately
Inflection
Declension of ἐγκρατής; ἐγκρατές (Uncontracted)
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | |||||||
| Nominative | ἐγκρατής | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέες | ἐγκρατέᾰ | |||||||
| Genitive | ἐγκρατέος | ἐγκρατέος | ἐγκρατέοιν | ἐγκρατέοιν | ἐγκρατέων | ἐγκρατέων | |||||||
| Dative | ἐγκρατέῐ̈ | ἐγκρατέῐ̈ | ἐγκρατέοιν | ἐγκρατέοιν | ἐγκρατέσῐ(ν) | ἐγκρατέσῐ(ν) | |||||||
| Accusative | ἐγκρατέᾰ | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέες | ἐγκρατέᾰ | |||||||
| Vocative | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέε | ἐγκρατέες | ἐγκρατέᾰ | |||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| ἐγκρατέως | ἐγκρατέστερος | ἐγκρατέστᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Declension of ἐγκρατής; ἐγκρατές (Contracted)
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | |||||||
| Nominative | ἐγκρατής | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖς | ἐγκρατῆ | |||||||
| Genitive | ἐγκρατοῦς | ἐγκρατοῦς | ἐγκρατοῖν | ἐγκρατοῖν | ἐγκρατῶν | ἐγκρατῶν | |||||||
| Dative | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατοῖν | ἐγκρατοῖν | ἐγκρατέσῐ(ν) | ἐγκρατέσῐ(ν) | |||||||
| Accusative | ἐγκρατῆ | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖς | ἐγκρατῆ | |||||||
| Vocative | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατές | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖ | ἐγκρατεῖς | ἐγκρατῆ | |||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| ἐγκρατῶς | ἐγκρατέστερος | ἐγκρατέστᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- ἐγκράτεια (enkráteia)
References
- ἐγκρατής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐγκρατής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἐγκρατής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ἐγκρατής» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G1468”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- «ἐγκρατής» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.