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Ἀκαρνάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀκαρνάν Ἀκαρνᾶνος

Structure: Ἀκαρναν (Stem)

Sense

  1. an inhabitant of Acarnania; an Acarnanian

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀκαρνᾶνοσ τοῖσ ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ ταύτῃ τὸ ὄνομα τὸ νῦν γενέσθαι λέγουσι τὰ πρὸ τούτου Κούρησι καλουμένοισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 12:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἔφοροσ πρὸ τῶν Τρωικῶν ἤδη τὴν Ἀκαρνανίαν ὑπὸ τῷ Ἀλκμέωνι ποιήσασ, τό τε Ἄργοσ τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν ἐκείνου κτίσμα ἀποφαίνει, καὶ τὴν Ἀκαρνανίαν ὠνομάσθαι φησὶν ἀπὸ τοῦ παιδὸσ αὐτοῦ Ἀκαρνᾶνοσ, Ἀμφιλόχουσ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἀμφιλόχου· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 37:1)

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