ἀκμή
See also: ακμή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-. Cognates include ἀκή (akḗ) and ἄκρος (ákros).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ak.mɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /akˈme̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /akˈmi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /akˈmi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /akˈmi/
Noun
ἀκμή • (akmḗ) f (genitive ἀκμῆς); first declension
- point, edge
- the highest or culminating point of something, bloom, flower, prime, zenith, especially of a person's age
- time, the best or most fitting time
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀκμή hē akmḗ |
τὼ ἀκμᾱ́ tṑ akmā́ |
αἱ ἀκμαί hai akmaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀκμῆς tês akmês |
τοῖν ἀκμαῖν toîn akmaîn |
τῶν ἀκμῶν tôn akmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀκμῇ têi akmêi |
τοῖν ἀκμαῖν toîn akmaîn |
ταῖς ἀκμαῖς taîs akmaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀκμήν tḕn akmḗn |
τὼ ἀκμᾱ́ tṑ akmā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ἀκμᾱ́ς tā̀s akmā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀκμή akmḗ |
ἀκμᾱ́ akmā́ |
ἀκμαί akmaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀκμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀκμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀκμή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀκμή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀκμή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀκμή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- acme idem, page 8.
- barb idem, page 62.
- blade idem, page 81.
- bloom idem, page 84.
- brink idem, page 100.
- climax idem, page 137.
- crisis idem, page 184.
- critical idem, page 185.
- edge idem, page 261.
- end idem, page 272.
- flower idem, page 329.
- height idem, page 394.
- heyday idem, page 398.
- high time idem, page 399.
- hour idem, page 408.
- life idem, page 489.
- manhood idem, page 511.
- mature idem, page 518.
- maturity idem, page 518.
- occasion idem, page 568.
- perfection idem, page 607.
- pinnacle idem, page 614.
- plenitude idem, page 620.
- point idem, page 623.
- prime idem, page 640.
- quintessence idem, page 667.
- rapier idem, page 672.
- ripeness idem, page 716.
- spike idem, page 801.
- spring idem, page 805.
- summit idem, page 837.
- time idem, page 875.
- tip idem, page 877.
- top idem, page 881.
- vertex idem, page 949.
- vigour idem, page 952.
- youth idem, page 997.
- zenith idem, page 997.
- 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
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