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ἀκρήβης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρήβης

Structure: ἀκρηβ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kros, h(/bh

Sense

  1. a youth in his prime

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀκρήβης ἀκρήβᾱ ἀκρῆβαι
Genitive ἀκρήβου ἀκρήβαιν ἀκρηβῶν
Dative ἀκρήβῃ ἀκρήβαιν ἀκρήβαις
Accusative ἀκρήβην ἀκρήβᾱ ἀκρήβᾱς
Vocative ἀκρῆβα ἀκρήβᾱ ἀκρῆβαι

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

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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