acrasia

acrasia · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ḱerh₂-“to mix”
2. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ“bad mixture”
3. Late Latin · learned borrowing fromacrasia“lack of temperance”
4. English todayacrasia

Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (ăkrāsĭ́ā, “bad mixture”), from ἄκρᾱτος (ákrātos, “pure, unmixed, untempered; of a person: intemperate, violent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Ἄκρᾱτος (Ákrātos) is derived from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “privative”, prefix) + κερᾰ́ννῡμῐ (kerắnnūmĭ, “to mix, blend; to cool or temper by mixing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to mix”)) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives). Doublet of acrasy.

acrasia · noun²

A variant of akrasia.

Words from the same roots