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ἀκραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκραῖος

Structure: ἀκραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kra

Sense

  1. dwelling on the heights

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀκραῖος ἀκραῖα ά̓κραιον
Genitive ἀκραίου ἀκραίᾱς ἀκραίου
Dative ἀκραίῳ ἀκραίᾱͅ ἀκραίῳ
Accusative ἀκραῖον ἀκραῖαν ά̓κραιον
Vocative ἀκραῖε ἀκραῖα ά̓κραιον
DualN/A/V ἀκραίω ἀκραίᾱ ἀκραίω
G/D ἀκραίοιν ἀκραίαιν ἀκραίοιν
PluralNominative ἀκραῖοι ἀκραῖαι ά̓κραια
Genitive ἀκραίων ἀκραιῶν ἀκραίων
Dative ἀκραίοις ἀκραίαις ἀκραίοις
Accusative ἀκραίους ἀκραίᾱς ά̓κραια
Vocative ἀκραῖοι ἀκραῖαι ά̓κραια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀκραῖος ἀκραίου ἀκραιώτερος ἀκραιωτέρου ἀκραιώτατος ἀκραιωτάτου
Adverb ἀκραίως ἀκραιώτερον ἀκραιώτατα

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

  • τὸ γὰρ δὴ ὄροσ τοῦτο ὀνομάζουσιν Εὔβοιαν, λέγοντεσ Ἀστερίωνι γενέσθαι τῷ ποταμῷ θυγατέρασ Εὔβοιαν καὶ Πρόσυμναν καὶ Ἀκραίαν, εἶναι δὲ σφᾶσ τροφοὺσ τῆσ Ἥρασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling on the heights

Similar forms

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

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