ἀκαρί
Ὥσπερ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἡλίου μὴ ὄντος καυστικοῦ, ἀλλ' οὔσης ζωτικῆς καὶ ζωοποιοῦ θέρμης ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπλήκτου, ὁ ἀὴρ παθητικῶς δέχεται τὸ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ ϕῶς καὶ καυστικῶς· οὕτως οὖν ἁρμονίας οὔσης ἐν αὐτοῖς τινὸς καὶ ἑτέρου εἴδους ϕωνῆς ἡμεῖς παθητικῶς ἀκούομεν → Just as although the Sun itself does not cause burning but has a heat in it that is life-giving, life-engendering, and mild, the air receives light from it by being affected and burned, so also although there is a certain harmony and a different kind of voice in them, we hear it by being affected.
English (LSJ)
τό, kind of
A mite, bred in wax, Arist.HA557b8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 68] τό, Milbe, ἐλάχιστον ζῶον Arist. H. A. 5, 32 (acarus, Linn.).
Spanish (DGE)
τό
ácaro, cresade la cera, Arist.HA 557b8.
• Etimología: Rel. prob. c. ἀκαρής q.u.
Greek Monolingual
(-εως), το (Α ἀκαρί, το)
νεοελλ.
κάθε μέλος της υφομοταξίας Ακάρεα
αρχ.
είδος της υφομοταξίας Ακάρεα, το οποίο αναπτύσσεται μέσα σε κερί.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Η αρχαία λέξη προέρχεται πιθ. από συμφυρμό των ἀκαρὴς «μικροσκοπικός σύντομος» + κόρις «κοριός». Για την ετυμολογία της νεοελληνικής λέξης βλ. ετυμολογία λήμματος Ακάρεα].
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀκᾰρί: adv. Arst. = ἀκαρῆ.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: mite (Arist.)
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: Fur. 371 connects κὰρνος = φθείρ (louse) H., which is quite attractive. Usually connected with ἀκαρής, q.v. DELG suggests contamination of ἀκαρής with κόρις bug. I would rather think that κὸρις is cognate, as a substr. word, with proth. vowel and α\/ο.
