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ἀκμαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκμαῖος ἀκμαῖη ἀκμαῖον

Structure: ἀκμαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kmh/

Sense

  1. in full bloom, at the prime, blooming, vigorous, in the prime of
  2. in time, in season

Examples

  • καὶ ἐσθίειν δὲ ἀνάγκη λελυμένην κύνα πᾶν τὸ ἐμπεσόν, καὶ τὸ ἀκμαῖον τοῦ δρόμου ἀφαιρεῖται αὐτῶν ὁ δἰ ἡμέρασ περίπατοσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 11 2:1)
  • κἀκ τῶνδ’ ἔπινε βρῦτον ἀκμαῖον χρόνῳ κἀσεμνοκόμπει, ὁ τοῦτ’ ἐν ἀνδρείᾳ τιθείσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 67 2:2)
  • ἅπασαν τὴν πολεμίαν διεξῄει ἀρούρασ τε ἀκμαῖον ἤδη τὸ σιτικὸν θέροσ ἐχούσασ πυρὶ διδοὺσ καὶ δένδρα καρποφόρα κείρων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 7 4:1)
  • ἁρ́πασεν ᾍδασ, ἁρ́πασεν ἀκμαῖον δ’ ἄνθοσ ἔφυρε κόνισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 476 1:3)
  • ἔνθα μάλιστα ὤφθη, ὅσον αὐτῶν τὸ πλῆθοσ ἦν καὶ ὡσ ἀκμαῖον ἅπαν ὑφ’ ἕνα καιρὸν καὶ κατὰ μίαν ἐξιόντων πύλην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 4 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. in time

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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