ἕξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, to remain, to be”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hék.sis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɛk.sis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈek.sis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈek.sis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈek.sis/

Noun

ἕξῐς • (héxis) f (genitive ἕξεως); third declension

an act of having, possession
- Plato, Theaetetus 197B
- Plato, Cratylus 414B
- Plato, Laws 625C
a being in a certain state, a permanent condition, produced by practice
1. a state or habit of body, especially a good habit
  - Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1245
  - Hippocrates, On Joints 789
  - Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.4
  - Hippocrates, Surgery 740
2. a state or habit of mind
  - Plato, Laws 650B
  - Plato, Theaetetus 153B
  - Plato, Theaetetus 167A
  - Plato, The Republic 591B
  - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.8.9
  - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.7
  - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.7.6
  - Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.20
3. skill as the result of practice, experience
  - Plato, Phaedrus 268E
  - Aristotle, Problems 30.2

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἕξῐς; τῆς ἕξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἕξῐς hē héxis	τὼ ἕξει tṑ héxei	αἱ ἕξεις hai héxeis
Genitive	τῆς ἕξεως tês héxeōs	τοῖν ἑξέοιν toîn hexéoin	τῶν ἕξεων tôn héxeōn
Dative	τῇ ἕξει têi héxei	τοῖν ἑξέοιν toîn hexéoin	ταῖς ἕξεσῐ / ἕξεσῐν taîs héxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἕξῐν tḕn héxin	τὼ ἕξει tṑ héxei	τᾱ̀ς ἕξεις tā̀s héxeis
Vocative	ἕξῐ héxi	ἕξει héxei	ἕξεις héxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

(permanent condition): σχέσις (skhésis)
(state of mind): δύναμις (dúnamis)

Descendants

Greek: έξη (éxi)

Further reading

ἕξις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἕξις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἕξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G1838 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- condition idem, page 157.
- disposition idem, page 237.
- habit idem, page 380.
- propensity idem, page 653.
- quality idem, page 663.
- state idem, page 812.

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