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ἄκρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκρᾱ ἄκρας

Structure: ἀκρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kros

Sense

  1. end, point, top, peak, extremity
  2. A castle or citadel overlooking a town.

Declension

First 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

  • προϊώμεν, ὦ Δίκη, ταύτῃ εὐθὺ τοῦ Σουνίου μικρὸν ὑπὸ τὸν Ὑμηττὸν ἐπὶ τὰ λαιὰ τῆσ Πάρνηθοσ, ἔνθα αἱ δύο ἐκεῖναι ἄκραι· (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 8:1)
  • ἀκταὶ δὲ Μυκόνου Δήλιοί τε χοιράδεσ Σκῦρόσ τε Λῆμνόσ θ’ αἱ Καφήρειοί τ’ ἄκραι πολλῶν θανόντων σώμαθ’ ἕξουσιν νεκρῶν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:32)
  • "ὦ Φίλιππε, Κρητῶν ὄρη καὶ μεγάλα, πολλαὶ δὲ Βοιωτῶν ἄκραι καὶ Φωκέων ἐκπεφύκασι τῆσ γῆσ· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 50 5:1)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἄκραι τίνεσ εἰσὶν ἁρμονίαι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 42 1:1)
  • τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίᾳ περὶ τὸν ὄρθρον, ἐκ μαλακῆσ καὶ νοτίου νυκτὸσ, εἰσ ὁμίχλην τῶν νεφῶν τρεπομένων, ἀνεπίμπλατο ζόφου βαθέοσ πᾶν τὸ πεδίον, καὶ κατῄει παχὺσ ἐκ τῶν ἄκρωνἀὴρ εἰσ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν στρατοπέδων, εὐθὺσ ἀρχομένησ ἡμέρασ ἀποκρύπτων τοὺσ τόπουσ, οἱ δὲ ὑπ’ ἀμφοτέρων ἀποσταλέντεσ ἐφεδρείασ ἕνεκα καὶ κατασκοπῆσ ἐν πάνυ βραχεῖ περιπεσόντεσ ἀλλήλοισ ἐμάχοντο περὶ τὰσ καλουμένασ Κυνὸσ κεφαλάσ, αἳ λόφων οὖσαι πυκνῶν καὶ παραλλήλων ἄκραι λεπταὶ δι’ ὁμοιότητα τὸν σχήματοσ οὕτωσ ὠνομάσθησαν. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 8 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. end

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