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|etymtx=-ές<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[small]], [[tiny]] (Ar.)<br />Other forms: Mostly in fixed expressions, of time <b class="b3">ἐν ἀκαρεῖ</b> (<b class="b3">χρόνου</b>), <b class="b3">ἀκαρῆ</b> <b class="b2">a moment</b> (Ar.); also <b class="b3">κατέπεσον ἀκαρης τῳ̃ δέει</b> <b class="b2">it was a hairbeadth eescape</b>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἀκαρῆ</b> <b class="b2">not at all</b>. A form <b class="b3">ἄκαρ</b> is attributed to Antiphon (Taillardat, Images d'Aristophane \#248).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἀκαριαῖος</b> id. (D., ), cf. Chantr. Form. 49.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Of old derived from <b class="b3">κείρω</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκάρην</b> (wie <b class="b3">ἐμίγην</b> : <b class="b3">ἀμιγής</b>) as <b class="b2">too small to cut</b>: <b class="b3">τὸ βραχύ</b>, <b class="b3">ὅ οὑδε κεῖραι οἷόν τε</b> H.; doubtful. Perhaps <b class="b2">(not a) louse</b>?, see [[ἀκαρί]].
|etymtx=-ές<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[small]], [[tiny]] (Ar.)<br />Other forms: Mostly in fixed expressions, of time <b class="b3">ἐν ἀκαρεῖ</b> (<b class="b3">χρόνου</b>), <b class="b3">ἀκαρῆ</b> <b class="b2">a moment</b> (Ar.); also <b class="b3">κατέπεσον ἀκαρης τῳ̃ δέει</b> <b class="b2">it was a hairbeadth eescape</b>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἀκαρῆ</b> <b class="b2">not at all</b>. A form <b class="b3">ἄκαρ</b> is attributed to Antiphon (Taillardat, Images d'Aristophane \#248).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἀκαριαῖος</b> id. (D., ), cf. Chantr. Form. 49.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Of old derived from <b class="b3">κείρω</b>, <b class="b3">ἐκάρην</b> (wie <b class="b3">ἐμίγην</b> : <b class="b3">ἀμιγής</b>) as <b class="b2">too small to cut</b>: <b class="b3">τὸ βραχύ</b>, <b class="b3">ὅ οὑδε κεῖραι οἷόν τε</b> H.; doubtful. Perhaps <b class="b2">(not a) louse</b>?, see [[ἀκαρί]].
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|mdlsjtxt=[[κείρω]]<br />of [[hair]], too [[short]] to be cut, [[very]] [[short]]: [[mostly]] in neut. ἀκαρές,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of [[Time]], a [[moment]], ἐν [[ἀκαρεῖ]] χρόνου Ar.; ἀκαρῆ διαλιπὼν (sc. χρόνον) having waited a [[moment]], Ar.; ἀκαρὲς ὥρας a [[moment]], Plut.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the acc. ἀκαρῆ is used adverbially without [[reference]] to [[Time]], οὐκ ἀκαρῆ or οὐδ' ἀκαρῆ not a bit, Ar.
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