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ἄκρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκρις ἄκριος

Structure: ἀκρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. hill-top, mountain peak,

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐκέτι δή σε λίγεια κατ’ ἀφνεὸν Ἀλκίδοσ οἶκον ἀκρὶ μελιζομέναν ὄψεται ἀέλιοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1891)
  • οὐκέτι δὴ πτερύγεσσι λιγυφθόγγοισιν ἀείσεισ, ἀκρί, κατ’ εὐκάρπουσ αὔλακασ ἑζομένα, οὐδέ με κεκλιμένον σκιερὰν ὑπὸ φυλλάδα τέρψεισ, ξουθᾶν ἐκ πτερύγων ἁδὺ κρέκουσα μέλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1921)
  • Ἀκρίσ, ἐμῶν ἀπάτημα πόθων, παραμύθιον ὕπνου, ἀκρίσ, ἀρουραίη Μοῦσα, λιγυπτέρυγε, αὐτοφυὲσ μίμημα λύρασ, κρέκε μοί τι ποθεινόν, ἐγκρούουσα φίλοισ ποσσὶ λάλουσ πτέρυγασ, ὥσ με πόνων ῥύσαιο παναγρύπνοιο μερίμνησ, ἀκρί, μιτωσαμένη φθόγγον ἐρωτοπλάνον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1951)

Synonyms

  1. hill-top

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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