ἄξιος

According to some scholars, from ἄγω (ágō, “to lead, draw out or down”) +‎ -τιος (-tios) (perhaps via an unattested intermediate ἄξις (áxis, “weight”)), with sense development "draw down (in the scale)" > "weigh, import". Beekes expresses mild doubts about this, both in the semantics as well as no other morphological derivative of ἄγω (ágō) being in -τι- (-ti-), but tentatively accepts this etymology.^[1] For a semantic parallel, compare Latin exāmen (“tongue of a balance; examining”), from the same root.

ᾰ̓́ξῐος • (áxios) m (feminine ᾰ̓ξῐ́ᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓́ξῐον); first/second declension

1. counterbalancing, weighing as much as, of like value
   • Iliad 23.885:

     νῦν δ’ οὐδ’ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος

     we are not worth as much as one Hector

2. worthy, fit

• → Coptic: ⲁⲝⲓⲟⲥ (aksios)
• Greek: άξιος (áxios)
  • αξιο- (axio-)

ἄξιος • (áxios)

1. (Koine, Christianity) Acclamation confirming the election of a Christian bishop or patriarch, (literally) "Worthy!"

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• “ἄξιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄξιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄξιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄξιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄξιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄξιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G514 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.
  • adequate idem, page 11.
  • axius (river) idem, page 57.
  • condign idem, page 157.
  • deserved idem, page 215.
  • deserving idem, page 215.
  • due idem, page 255.
  • exemplary idem, page 290.
  • fit idem, page 323.
  • just idem, page 466.
  • merited idem, page 526.
  • right idem, page 714.
  • worth idem, page 990.
  • worthy idem, page 991.