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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

  • ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ δὲ ἄνω Γερόνθραι σταδίουσ ἀπέχουσιν εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν Ἀκριῶν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 10:1)
  • κατὰ μὲν δὴ τὴν ἐξ Ἀκριῶν ἐσ Γερόνθρασ ὁδὸν ἔστι Παλαιὰ καλουμένη κώμη, ἐν δὲ αὐταῖσ Γερόνθραισ Ἄρεωσ ναὸσ καὶ ἄλσοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 10:4)
  • τάδε μὲν ἀπὸ Ἀκριῶν ἄνω πρὸσ ἤπειρον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 16:1)
  • τὰ δὲ πρὸσ θαλάσσῃ, πόλισ Ἀσωπὸσ Ἀκριῶν ἀπέχει σταδίουσ ἑξήκοντα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 16:2)
  • τούτων μὲν οὖν γονέασ τε καὶ πατρίδασ οὐχ οἱᾶ́ τε ἦν πυθέσθαι μοι, τὸν δὲ ἀποθανόντα ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ Ἀκρίαν τεκμαίροιτο ἄν τισ Λακεδαιμόνιόν τε εἶναι καὶ οἰκιστὴν Ἀκριῶν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 18:1)

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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