ἐγκράτεια

Ancient Greek

From ἐγκρᾰτής (enkrătḗs, “possession, power over”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ĭă).

ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ • (enkrắteiă) f (genitive ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ; τῆς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ hē enkrắteiă	τὼ ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ tṑ enkrăteíā	αἱ ἐγκρᾰ́τειαι hai enkrắteiai
Genitive	τῆς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς tês enkrăteíās	τοῖν ἐγκρᾰτείαιν toîn enkrăteíain	τῶν ἐγκρᾰτειῶν tôn enkrăteiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐγκρᾰτείᾳ tēî enkrăteíāi	τοῖν ἐγκρᾰτείαιν toîn enkrăteíain	ταῖς ἐγκρᾰτείαις taîs enkrăteíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰν tḕn enkrắteiăn	τὼ ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ tṑ enkrăteíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐγκρᾰτείᾱς tā̀s enkrăteíās
Vocative	ἐγκρᾰ́τειᾰ enkrắteiă	ἐγκρᾰτείᾱ enkrăteíā	ἐγκρᾰ́τειαι enkrắteiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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 (2006–2025)
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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abstemiousness idem, page 4.
- 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.