ἕξις

Ancient Greek

From ἔχω (ékhō, “to have”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).^[1]

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

an act of having, possession
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 197B
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 414B
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 625C
a being in a certain state, a permanent condition, produced by practice
Antonym: σχέσῐς (skhésĭs)
1. a state or habit of body, especially a good habit
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 1245
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Joints 789
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.4
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Surgery 740
2. a state or habit of mind
  Antonym: δῠ́νᾰμῐς (dŭ́nămĭs)
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 650B
  - 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 153B
  - 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 167A
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 591B
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.8.9
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.7
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.7.6
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.20
3. skill as the result of practice, experience
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 268E
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 30.2

Third declension of ἡ ἕξῐς; τῆς ἕξεως (Attic)

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

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἑκτικός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 398-9

“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, 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.
- condition idem, page 157.
- disposition idem, page 237.
- habit idem, page 380.
- propensity idem, page 653.
- quality idem, page 663.
- state idem, page 812.