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ἀκρήβης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: akrēbēs

Principal Part: ἀκρήβης

Structure: ἀκρηβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ἄκρος, ἥβη

Sense

  1. a youth in his prime

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

  • λάθρῃ παπταίνοντα παρὰ φλιὴν Ἐχέδημον λάθριος ἀκρήβην τὸν χαρίεντ ἔκυσα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1241)
  • παρὰ προθύροις γὰρ ὁ δειλὸς τοῖσδε σὺν ἀκρήβαις πολλάκι παννυχίσας, οὐκ ἔπος, οὐ χαρίεσσαν ὑπόσχεσιν, οὐδὲ μελιχρῆς ἐλπίδος ὑβριστὴν μῆθον ἐπεσπασατο: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 71 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a youth in his prime

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

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