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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sklɛː.ró.tɛːs/ → /skliˈro.tis/ → /skliˈro.tis/
Noun
σκληρότης • (sklērótēs) f (genitive σκληρότητος); third declension
- hardness, rigidity
- stubbornness
- harshness, austerity
Inflection
References
- “σκληρότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκληρότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4643 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.
- austerity idem, page 53.
- cruelty idem, page 187.
- determination idem, page 219.
- doggedness idem, page 246.
- ferocity idem, page 316.
- fierceness idem, page 318.
- hardness idem, page 385.
- harshness idem, page 387.
- impenitence idem, page 420.
- implacability idem, page 421.
- inflexibility idem, page 438.
- intractability idem, page 454.
- obduracy idem, page 564.
- obstinacy idem, page 567.
- rigidity idem, page 715.
- rigour idem, page 715.
- severity idem, page 759.
- sternness idem, page 816.
- stiffness idem, page 817.
- strictness idem, page 825.
- stubbornness idem, page 828.
- toughness idem, page 884.
- unkindness idem, page 923.
- wilfulness idem, page 979.
Greek
Noun
σκληρότης • (sklirótis) f
- Katharevousa form of σκληρότητα (sklirótita)