Hellas Alive Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκρις ἄκριος

Structure: ἀκρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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.

οὐδὲ θάλασσα οὔθ’ ὕδωρ ποταμῶν οὔτ’ ἄγκεα ποιήεντα ἵππων ἀθανάτων οὔτ’ ἄκριεσ ἔσχεθον ὁρμήν, ἀλλ’ ὑπὲρ αὐτάων βαθὺν ἠέρα τέμνον ἰόντεσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:8)
νειόθι δ’ ἄλλοτε γαῖα φερέσβιοσ ἄστεά τ’ ἀνδρῶν φαίνετο καὶ ποταμῶν ἱεροὶ ῥόοι, ἄλλοτε δ’ αὖτε ἄκριεσ, ἀμφὶ δὲ πόντοσ ἀν’ αἰθέρα πολλὸν ἰόντι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 3:45)

hill-top
- πάρνοψ (a locust)
- ἀκριδοθήκη (a locust-cage)
- ὄνος (wingless locust)

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

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