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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Neuter of ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros, “topmost”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.kron/ → /ˈa.kron/ → /ˈa.kron/
Noun
ᾰ̓́κρον • (ắkron) n (genitive ᾰ̓́κρου); second declension
- peak (e.g. of a mountain)
- headland, cape
- end, extremity
- highest height, apex
- (in the plural, logic) the major and minor points of syllogism
- extreme
Inflection
Descendants
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 (2006–2025)
- 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.