ἀκρίβεια

See also: ακρίβεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἀκρῑβής (akrībḗs) +‎ -εια (-eia)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.krǐː.beː.a/ → /aˈkri.βi.a/ → /aˈkri.vi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.krǐː.beː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkri.bi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈkri.βi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈkri.vi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈkri.vi.a/

Noun

ἀκρῑ́βειᾰ • (akrī́beiă) f (genitive ἀκρῑβείᾱς); first declension

1. accuracy, precision, exactness
2. (Byzantine) lack, need

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀκρῑ́βειᾰ; τῆς ἀκρῑβείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀκρῑ́βειᾰ hē akrī́beiă	τὼ ἀκρῑβείᾱ tṑ akrībeíā	αἱ ἀκρῑ́βειαι hai akrī́beiai
Genitive	τῆς ἀκρῑβείᾱς tês akrībeíās	τοῖν ἀκρῑβείαιν toîn akrībeíain	τῶν ἀκρῑβειῶν tôn akrībeiôn
Dative	τῇ ἀκρῑβείᾳ têi akrībeíāi	τοῖν ἀκρῑβείαιν toîn akrībeíain	ταῖς ἀκρῑβείαις taîs akrībeíais
Accusative	τὴν ἀκρῑ́βειᾰν tḕn akrī́beiăn	τὼ ἀκρῑβείᾱ tṑ akrībeíā	τᾱ̀ς ἀκρῑβείᾱς tā̀s akrībeíās
Vocative	ἀκρῑ́βειᾰ akrī́beiă	ἀκρῑβείᾱ akrībeíā	ἀκρῑ́βειαι akrī́beiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: ακρίβεια (akríveia)

Further reading

• ἀκρίβεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκρίβεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀκρίβεια 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
• “ἀκρίβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G195 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.
  • accuracy idem, page 7.
  • care idem, page 113.
  • certainty idem, page 122.
  • correctness idem, page 176.
  • dogmatism idem, page 246.
  • exactitude idem, page 287.
  • exactness idem, page 287.
  • formality idem, page 339.
  • literalness idem, page 494.
  • minuteness idem, page 532.
  • narrowness idem, page 551.
  • niceness idem, page 558.
  • preciseness idem, page 634.
  • precision idem, page 634.
  • punctiliousness idem, page 657.
  • punctuality idem, page 657.
  • scrupulousness idem, page 743.
  • strictness idem, page 825.
  • thoroughness idem, page 868.
  • truthfulness idem, page 899.