ἐγκρατής

From ἐν- (en-, “in”) +‎ κρᾰ́τος (krátos, “power”) +‎ -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).

ἐγκρᾰτής • (enkratḗs) m or f (neuter ἐγκρᾰτές); third declension

1. in possession of power, in charge
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 941
2. holding fast
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 7.8
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 9.2
   1. stout, strong
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 55
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 474
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.23
3. (with genitive) having possession of a thing, master of it
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.49
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.106
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 75
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 715
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 256B:

     ἐγκρ. ἑαυτοῦ

     enkr. heautoû

     master of oneself

   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.1
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 12.16
   1. master of oneself, self-controlling, self-disciplined
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Definitions 415D
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 7.4.4
4. (adverbial) with a strong hand, by force
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.13.9:

     ἐγκρ. ἔχειν τὴν ἀρχήν

     enkr. ékhein tḕn arkhḗn

   1. with self-control, temperately
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 710A

• ἐγκράτεια (enkráteia)

• “ἐγκρατής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐγκρατής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐγκρατής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐγκρατής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1468 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἐγκρατής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abstinent idem, page 4.
  • chaste idem, page 127.
  • continent idem, page 168.
  • master idem, page 517.
  • mighty idem, page 528.
  • possessed idem, page 628.
  • potent idem, page 629.
  • powerful idem, page 630.
  • self-controlled idem, page 750.
  • stout idem, page 821.
  • strong idem, page 827.
  • vigorous idem, page 952.