ἄκρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter of ᾰ̓́κρος (ákros, “topmost”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ᾰ̓́κρον • (ákron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́κρου); second declension

1. peak (e.g. of a mountain)
2. headland, cape
3. end, extremity
4. highest height, apex
5. (in the plural, logic) the major and minor points of syllogism
6. extreme

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: άκρο (ákro)

Further reading

• “ἄκρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄκρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄκρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄκρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄκρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄκρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G206 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.
  • cape idem, page 111.
  • foreland idem, page 336.
  • headland idem, page 391.
  • height idem, page 394.
  • peak idem, page 601.
  • pinnacle idem, page 614.
  • pitch idem, page 614.
  • point idem, page 623.
  • promontory idem, page 653.
  • summit idem, page 837.
  • top idem, page 881.
  • vertex idem, page 949.