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 |etymtx=-α</b>, <b class="b3">-ον<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">at the farthest point, topmost, outermost</b> (Il.). Old <b class="b3">ἄκρα</b> f., <b class="b3">ἄκρον</b> n. <b class="b2">highest or farthest point, headland, cape</b>; Hom. <b class="b3">κατ</b>' <b class="b3">ἄκρης</b> (<b class="b3">πόλιος</b>) <b class="b2">from the highest point down</b> hence [[completely]], [[utterly]], also <b class="b3">κατ</b>' <b class="b3">ἄκρηθεν</b> (which became <b class="b3">κατὰ κρῆθεν</b> through association with <b class="b3">κάρα</b>), s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 56ff.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἀκρόπολις</b> (Od.; the Iliad still has <b class="b3">ἄκρη πόλις</b>, Frisk IF 52, 282ff., Risch IF 59, 20); <b class="b3">ἀκραής</b> often interpreted as <b class="b2">blowing vehemently</b>, but prob. orig.`blowing on\/from the heights'.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἄκρις</b>, <b class="b3">-ιος</b> f. <b class="b2">hill-top, mountain peak</b> (Od.), always pl.; s. on [[ὄκρις]]. <b class="b3">ἀκραῖος</b> <b class="b2">dwelling on heights</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [18] <b class="b2">*h₂eḱ-</b> <b class="b2">sharp, pointed; stone (?)</b><br />Etymology: The root <b class="b2">*h₂eḱ-</b> is widespread in IE, and ther are several <b class="b2">r-</b>derivatives: Skt. <b class="b2">áśri-</b> f. <b class="b2">corner, sharp side</b>, <b class="b2">catur-aśra-</b> [[quadrangular]], Lat. [[ācer]], <b class="b2">-ris</b>, <b class="b2">-re</b> (with unexplained length), W. PN [[Aχrotalus]] <b class="b2">with high forehead</b>, OIr. <b class="b2">ér</b> [[high]], OLith. [[aštras]], OCS [[ostrъ]] [[sharp]]. (For <b class="b2">akro-</b> in Illyrian s. Krahe Pannonia 1937, 310 n. 40, Karg WuS NF. 4, 183.) - Heth. <b class="b2">ḫekur</b> <b class="b2">rock(point)</b> is unrelated. - See further <b class="b3">ἀκη</b>, [[ἀκμή]] and [[ὄκρις]]. Connection with the root <b class="b2">*h₂eḱ-</b> was often unjustly assumed by modern scholarship, see e.g. [[ἀκαλήφη]], <b class="b3">ἀκόστη</b>, [[ἄκορνα]], <b class="b3">ἀκριβής</b>.
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+|mdlsjtxt=[ἀκή I]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> at the [[furthest]] [[point]], and so [[either]] [[topmost]] = Lat. [[summus]], or [[outermost]] = Lat. [[extremus]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[highest]], [[topmost]], ἐν ἄκρηι πόλει = ἐν ἀκροπόλει, Il.; [[μέλαν]] [[ὕδωρ]] [[ἄκρον]] at its [[surface]], Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[outermost]], [[ἄκρη]] [[χείρ]], ἄκροι πόδες, [[ἄκρος]] [[ὦμος]] the end of the [[hand]], ends of the feet, tip of the [[shoulder]], Il., Thuc.; ἐπ' [[ἄκρων]] [δακτύλων] on tiptoe, Soph.; ἄκροισι λαίφους κρασπέδοις with the [[outermost]] edges of the [[sail]], i. e. under [[close]]-reefed sails, Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[Time]], it denotes completeness, ἄκραι σὺν ἑσπέραι [[when]] eve was [[fully]] [[come]], Pind.; ἄκρας νυκτός at [[dead]] of [[night]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> of Degree, the [[highest]] in its [[kind]], [[exceeding]] [[good]], [[consummate]], [[excellent]]: of persons, Hdt., etc.; [[ἄκρος]] [[μάντις]] Soph.:—often with an acc. modi added, ψυχὴν οὐκ [[ἄκρος]] not [[strong]] in [[mind]], Hdt.; ἄκροι τὰ πολέμια, [[skilful]] in war, Hdt., etc.; also c. gen. modi, οἱ ἄκροι τῆς ποιήσεως Plat.; also, [[ἄκρος]] εἰς or [[περί]] τι Plat.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> as Subst., v. [[ἄκρα]], [[ἄκρον]].<br /><b class="num">V.</b> neut. as adv. on the top or [[surface]], [[just]], [[ἄκρον]] ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖνος on the [[very]] [[edge]] of the [[surf]], il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[exceedingly]], Theocr.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[utterly]], [[completely]], Plat.
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