ἀκρίς
See also: ἄκρις, Ἀκρίς, and Ἄκρις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Hardly related to κρίζω (krízō, “to creak”). Winter connects it with κέρκα (kérka, “grasshopper”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin, which is quite probable for a grasshopper.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.krís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈkris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈkris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈkris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈkris/
Noun
ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς • (akrís) f (genitive ᾰ̓κρῐ́δος); third declension
- grasshopper, locust, cricket
- Synonym: ἀττέλαβος (attélabos)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς; τῆς ᾰ̓κρῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς hē akrís | τὼ ᾰ̓κρῐ́δε tṑ akríde | αἱ ᾰ̓κρῐ́δες hai akrídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓κρῐ́δος tês akrídos | τοῖν ᾰ̓κρῐ́δοιν toîn akrídoin | τῶν ᾰ̓κρῐ́δων tôn akrídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓κρῐ́δῐ têi akrídi | τοῖν ᾰ̓κρῐ́δοιν toîn akrídoin | ταῖς ᾰ̓κρῐ́σῐ / ᾰ̓κρῐ́σῐν taîs akrísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓κρῐ́δᾰ tḕn akrída | τὼ ᾰ̓κρῐ́δε tṑ akríde | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s akrídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓κρῐ́ς akrís | ᾰ̓κρῐ́δε akríde | ᾰ̓κρῐ́δες akrídes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀκρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀκρίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀκρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκρίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀκρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G200 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀκρίς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- locust idem, page 497.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN