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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐγκρᾰτής (enkratḗs, “possession, power over”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eŋ.krá.teː.a/ → /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/ → /eŋˈɡra.ti.a/
Noun
ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ • (enkráteia) f (genitive ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς); first declension
- mastery over
- self-control
Inflection
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- 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.