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ἀρετή (arete): all forms

ἀρετή means “excellence, valour, virtue”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Feminine
Nominativeἀρετή
Genitiveἀρετῆς
Dativeἀρετῇ
Accusativeἀρετήν
Vocativeἀρετή
Forms, plural
Feminine
Nominativeἀρεταί
Genitiveἀρετῶν
Dativeἀρεταῖς
Accusativeἀρετάς
Vocativeἀρεταί

Meaning and examples of ἀρετή

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.