The corpus record — Latin

ăcĕphălus

ăcĕphălus · adj

Without head

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What it meant

ăcĕphălus — Lewis & Short

ăcĕphălus, i, adj., = a)ke/falos.

I Without head, without chief or leader.— Subst.: ăcĕphăli, a sect of heretics, Isid. Or. 8, 5, 66; cf. 5, 39, 39 sq.—

II In prosody, of a hexameter which begins with a short syllable (e. g. e)peidh/), Vel. Long. p. 2219 P.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.