ἀκρίς

Hardly related to κρίζω (krízō, “to creak”). Winter connects it with κέρκα (kérka, “grasshopper”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, which is quite probable for a grasshopper.

ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς • (akrís) f (genitive ᾰ̓κρῐ́δος); third declension

1. grasshopper, locust, cricket

   Synonym: ἀττέλαβος (attélabos)

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) locust bean: the fruit of the carob tree
   • The Gospel of Mark 1:6:

     καὶ ἦν ὁ Ἰωάνης ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ,
     καὶ ἔσθων ἀκρίδας καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.

     kaì ên ho Iōánēs endeduménos tríkhas kamḗlou kaì zṓnēn dermatínēn perì tḕn osphùn autoû,
     kaì ésthōn akrídas kaì méli ágrion.

     And John was clothed in camel hairs and a leather belt around his loins,
     and eating locust( bean)s and wild honey.

• The sense 'locust bean' is invoked by some biblical scholars to explain John the Baptist's diet of 'locusts and wild honey', mentioned in Mark 1:6 and Matthew 3:4.^[1]

• “ἀκρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀκρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀκρίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀκρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκρίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀκρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G200 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • locust idem, page 497.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN