ἐγκρατής

Ancient Greek

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

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

in possession of power, in charge
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 941
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
having possession of a thing, master of it [with genitive]
- 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

Third declension of ἐγκρατής; ἐγκρατές (contracted, Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἐγκρατής enkratḗs	ἐγκρατές enkratés	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖς enkrateîs	ἐγκρατῆ enkratê
Genitive	ἐγκρατοῦς enkratoûs	ἐγκρατοῦς enkratoûs	ἐγκρατοῖν enkratoîn	ἐγκρατοῖν enkratoîn	ἐγκρατῶν enkratôn	ἐγκρατῶν enkratôn
Dative	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατοῖν enkratoîn	ἐγκρατοῖν enkratoîn	ἐγκρατέσῐ / ἐγκρατέσῐν enkratésĭ(n)	ἐγκρατέσῐ / ἐγκρατέσῐν enkratésĭ(n)
Accusative	ἐγκρατῆ enkratê	ἐγκρατές enkratés	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖς enkrateîs	ἐγκρατῆ enkratê
Vocative	ἐγκρατές enkratés	ἐγκρατές enkratés	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖ enkrateî	ἐγκρατεῖς enkrateîs	ἐγκρατῆ enkratê
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ἐγκρατῶς enkratôs		ἐγκρατέστερος enkratésteros		ἐγκρατέστᾰτος enkratéstătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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 (2006–2025)
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^[1], 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.