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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

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Εὐρώτασ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆσ Βλεμινάτιδοσ ἀναδείξασ τὸ ῥεῖθρον, παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν Σπάρτην ῥυεὶσ καὶ διεξιὼν αὐλῶνά τινα μακρὸν κατὰ τὸ Ἕλοσ, οὗ μέμνηται καὶ ὁ ποιητήσ, ἐκδίδωσι μεταξὺ Γυθείου τοῦ τῆσ Σπάρτησ ἐπινείου καὶ Ἀκραίων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 24:11)
  • εἶθ’ ὁ Εὐρώτασ ἐκδίδωσι μεταξὺ Γυθείου καὶ Ἀκραίων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 5 4:4)

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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