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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄκρις ά̓κριε ά̓κριες
Genitive ά̓κριος ἀκρίοιν ἀκρίων
Dative ά̓κρῑ ἀκρίοιν ά̓κρισιν*
Accusative ά̓κριν ά̓κριε ά̓κριας
Vocative ά̓κρις ά̓κριε ά̓κριες

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

  • τρίτον δὲ τουτί δι’ ἄκριασ ἔλαττον κώλου κομμάτιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2619)
  • Ἄρτεμιν ἀείδω χρυσηλάκατον, κελαδεινήν, παρθένον αἰδοίην, ἐλαφηβόλον, ἰοχέαιραν, αὐτοκασιγνήτην χρυσαόρου Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ἣ κατ’ ὄρη σκιόεντα καὶ ἄκριασ ἠνεμοέσσασ ἄγρῃ τερπομένη παγχρύσεα τόξα τιταίνει πέμπουσα στονόεντα βέλη· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • Αὐτὰρ ὅτ’ αἰγλήεσσα φαεινοῖσ ὄμμασιν Ηὢσ Πηλίου αἰπεινὰσ ἴδεν ἄκριασ, ἐκ δ’ ἀνέμοιο εὔδιοι ἐκλύζοντο τινασσομένησ ἁλὸσ ἄκραι, δὴ τότ’ ἀνέγρετο Τῖφυσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 10:5)
  • Αὐτίκα δ’ ἀκροτάτασ ὑπερέσχεθεν ἄκριασ ἀστὴρ ἠῷοσ, πνοιαὶ δὲ κατήλυθον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:10)
  • Ηἔλιοσ μὲν ἄπωθεν ἐρεμνὴν δύετο γαῖαν ἑσπέριοσ, νεάτασ ὑπὲρ ἄκριασ Αἰθιοπήων· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 20:1)

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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