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ἄκρον

akron · τό

highest, farthest point, mountain top, peak

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Where it lives

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What it meant

1. ἄκρον · akron — LSJ

highest, farthest point

like ἄκρα, highest or farthest point:

1 mountain top, peak, heights

mountain top, peak, Γάργαρον ἄκρον Ἴδης Il. 14.292; ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν Od. 11.597; τὰ ἄκρα heights, Hdt. 6.100, Pl. Criti. 110e, etc.

b tops

ἄκρα νάων ships’ tops, Alc. Supp. 12.9.

2 headland, cape

headland, cape, Σούνιον ἄκρον Ἀθηνέων Od. 3.278.

3 end, extremity, hands, the end, border, frontier

end, extremity, τὰ ἄ. τῆς θαλάσσης, [τοῦ ἀέρος], Pl. Phd. 109d, 109e; ἄκρα χειρῶν hands, Luc. Im. 6; ἐξ ἄκρων at the end, Ar. Fr. 29; ἐξ ἄκρου Com.Adesp. 398; ἐπʼ ἄκροις Pl. Sph. 220d:—border, frontier, Plb. 1.42.2.

II highest pitch, height, highest pitch, exceedingly, heights, highest point, prize

metaph., highest pitch, height, πανδοξίας ἄκρον Pi. N. 1.11; εἰς ἄκρον ἀνδρείας ἱκέσθαι to highest pitch, Simon. 58; εἰς ἄκρον ἁδύς exceedingly, Theoc. 14.61; ἐπʼ ἄκρον ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, Pl. Plt. 268e, Ti. 20a; πρὸς ἄκρῳ γενέσθαι Id. Phdr. 247b; ἄκρον ἔχων σοφίης Epigr.Gr. 442 (Nabataea); ἄκρον ἐρώτων εἰδότος, ἄκρα μάχας AP 7.448 (Leon.):—ἄκρα, τά, heights, highest point, οὔτοι ποθʼ ἥξει (sic) τῶν ἄκρων ἄνευ πόνου S. Fr. 397; ἄκρα φέρεσθαι win prize, Theoc. 12.31; ἄκρα φέρουσʼ ἀρετῆς ὑμῖν Epigr

2 pride

of persons, Ἄργεος ἄκρα Πελασγοί pride of Argos, Theoc. 15.142.

III

δρυὸς ἄκρα, = ἀκρόδρυα, ib. 112.

IV major and minor terms

in Logic of Arist. τὰ ἄκρα are major and minor terms of syllogism, opp. to μέσον or middle, APr. 25b36, al.

V extremes

extremes in a proportion, Id. EN 1133b2.

2. ἄκρων · akrōn — LSJ

= ἀκροκώλιον, Hippiatr. 7:—Dim. ἀκρωνάριον, ib. 64,129, cf. Sch. Luc. Lex. 6.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἄκρος (scan p. 104; entry #319).

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