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ἀκμής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκμής ἀκμές

Structure: ἀκμη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ka/mnw, a)ka/mas

Sense

  1. untiring, unwearied

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

  • ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡσ λίθοσ, ἕστηκε δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 41:16)
  • ἐννέα γὰρ νύκτασ τε καὶ ἤματα χάλκεοσ ἄκμων οὐρανόθεν κατιὼν δεκάτῃ κ’ ἐσ γαῖαν ἵκοιτο· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 68:3)
  • ἐννέα δ’ αὖ νύκτασ τε καὶ ἤματα χάλκεοσ ἄκμων ἐκ γαίησ κατιὼν δεκάτῃ κ’ ἐσ Τάρταρον ἵκοι. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 68:4)
  • ὑπομένειν πληγὰσ ἄκμων κονδύλουσ πλάττειν δὲ Τελαμών τοὺσ καλοὺσ πειρᾶν καπνόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 34 1:2)
  • εἰή μοι μελέεσσι τὰ Λήμνιοσ ἡρ́μοσεν ἄκμων δεσμά, καὶ Ἡφαίστου πᾶσα δολορραφίη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 286 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. untiring

Related

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

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