Ancient Greek

Noun

ἕξῐς • ‎(héxis) f ‎(genitive ἕξεως); third declension

1. an act of having, possession
   • Plato, Theaetetus 197.B
   • Plato, Cratylus 414.B
   • Plato, Laws 625.C
2. a being in a certain state, a permanent condition, produced by practice
   1. a state or habit of body, especially a good habit
      • Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1245
      • Hippocrates, On Joints 789
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.4
      • Hippocrates, Surgery 740
   2. a state or habit of mind
      • Plato, Laws 650.B
      • Plato, Theaetetus 153.B
      • Plato, Theaetetus 167.A
      • Plato, The Republic 591.B
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.8.9
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.7
      • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.7.6
      • Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.20
   3. skill as the result of practice, experience
      • Plato, Phaedrus 268.E
      • Aristotle, Problems 30.2

Declension

Antonyms

• (permanent condition): σχέσις ‎(skhésis)
• (state of mind): δύναμις ‎(dúnamis)

Derived terms

• κᾰχέκτης ‎(kakhéktēs)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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.