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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπιεικής (epieikḗs, “reasonable”) + -ιᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pi.ěː.keː.a/ → /e.piˈi.ci.a/ → /e.piˈi.ci.a/
Noun
ἐπῐείκεια • (epieíkeia) f (genitive ἐπῐεικείᾱς); first declension
- reasonableness
- equity
- (of persons) fairness
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἐπιείκεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπιείκεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπιείκεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G1932 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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- considerateness idem, page 163.
- equity idem, page 280.
- fairness idem, page 302.
- gentleness idem, page 357.
- honesty idem, page 404.
- impartiality idem, page 419.
- justice idem, page 466.
- kindness idem, page 469.
- lenity idem, page 485.
- meekness idem, page 522.
- mercifulness idem, page 525.
- mercy idem, page 525.
- mildness idem, page 529.
- morality idem, page 540.
- play idem, page 618.
- reasonableness idem, page 677.
- rectitude idem, page 684.
- righteousness idem, page 715.
- uprightness idem, page 939.