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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

Examples

  • Τοῖσι δὲ ὀθονίοισιν ἄρχεσθαι χρὴ ἐπιδέοντα ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰδήματοσ τοῦ ἐν τοῖσιν ἀκραίοισ πάνυ χαλαροῖσι, καὶ ἔπειτα ἐπινέμεσθαι τῇ ἐπιδέσει αἰεὶ ἐσ τὸ ἄνω, καὶ πεπιέχθαι μὲν μηδαμῇ, ἡρμόσθαι δὲ μάλιστα κατὰ τὸ ἕλκοσ, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ἐπὶ ἧσσον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 27.5)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling on the heights

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

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