Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄκτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκτιος

Structure: ἀκτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kth/

Sense

  1. haunting the shore

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἀποδέδεικται δ’ ὁ ἀγὼν Ὀλύμπιοσ, τὰ Ἄκτια, ἱερὸσ τοῦ Ἀκτίου Ἀπόλλωνοσ, τὴν δ’ ἐπιμέλειαν ἔχουσιν αὐτοῦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 12:12)
  • ἤγετο δὲ καὶ πρότερον τὰ Ἄκτια τῷ θεῷ, στεφανίτησ ἀγών, ὑπὸ τῶν περιοίκων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 12:14)

Synonyms

  1. haunting the shore

Related

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

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