Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὄρεξις

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ὄρεξις , εως, ἡ, (ὀρέγω) general word for all kinds of

A.appetency, conation, including ἐπιθυμία, θυμός, βούλησις, Arist.de An.414b2, cf. 433a13, al., Stoic.3.40, Epicur.Fr.202, Metrod.Herc.831.16, Phld. Mus.p.78 K. ; opp. φυγή, Arist.de An.431a12 ; opp. ἔκκλισις, Arr. Epict.1.4.1, M.Ant.8.7.

1. c. gen. objecti, longing or yearning after a thing, desire for it, Democr.219, Pl.Def.414b, Arist.EN1119b7, de An.414b6, al.: more rarely, “ὄ. ἐπί τι” Plu.2.48c ; “περί τι” Democr. 72.

2. abs., propension, appetency, “ὄ. βουλευτική” Arist.EN1113a11 ; ὄ. διανοητική ib.1139b5 ; “[ἐπιθυμίαι τινὲς] εὐδιάχυτον τὴν ὄ. ἔχουσιν” Epicur.Sent.26.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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