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ἀκρωμία?

First declension Noun; Transliteration: akrōmia

Principal Part: ἀκρωμία

Etym.: ὦμος

Sense

  1. the point of the shoulder, the withers

Examples

  • Ὅσοισι μὲν οὖν ἐγγὺς τοῦ αὐχένος ἡ κύφωσις γίνεται, ἧσσον εἰκὸς ὠφελέειν τὰς κατασείσιας ταύτας τὰς ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν‧ σμικρὸν γὰρ τὸ βάρος ἡ κεφαλὴ καὶ τὰ ἀκρώμια καταῤῬέποντα‧ ἀλλὰ τούς γε τοιούτους εἰκὸς ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας κατασεισθέντας μᾶλλον ἐξιθυνθῆναι‧ μέζων γὰρ οὕτως ἡ καταῤῬοπίη ἡ ἐπὶ ταῦτα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 43.1)
  • ἡ δ αὖ ὑψηλὴ ἀκρωμία τῷ τε ἀναβάτῃ ἀσφαλεστέραν τὴν ἕδραν καὶ τοῖς ὤμοις καὶ τῷ σώματι ἰσχυροτέραν τὴν πρόσφυσιν παρέχεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 14:2)
  • ἔπειτα τὰς μὲν ἡνίας περιβαλὼν περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν καθέτω ἐπὶ τῇ ἀκρωμίᾳ, τὴν δὲ κορυφαίαν τῇ δεξιᾷ αἰρέτω, τὸ δὲ στόμιον τῇ ἀριστερᾷ προσφερέτω. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. the point of the shoulder

    • ἐπωμίς (the point of the shoulder, the acromion, the shoulder)

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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