ἄκμων

See also: άκμων and ακμών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Cognates include Sanskrit Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman), Avestan Avestan 𐬀𐬐𐬨𐬀𐬥 (akman), Lithuanian Lithuanian akmuo, and English English hammer.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ák.mɔːn/ → /ˈak.mon/ → /ˈak.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ák.mɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈak.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈak.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈak.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈak.mon/

Noun

ἄκμων • (ákmōn) m (genitive ἄκμονος); third declension

1. anvil
2. pestle
3. head of a battering ram
4. type of wolf
5. type of eagle

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ἄκμων; τοῦ ἄκμονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄκμων ho ákmōn	τὼ ἄκμονε tṑ ákmone	οἱ ἄκμονες hoi ákmones
Genitive	τοῦ ἄκμονος toû ákmonos	τοῖν ἀκμόνοιν toîn akmónoin	τῶν ἀκμόνων tôn akmónōn
Dative	τῷ ἄκμονῐ tôi ákmoni	τοῖν ἀκμόνοιν toîn akmónoin	τοῖς ἄκμοσῐ / ἄκμοσῐν toîs ákmosi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἄκμονᾰ tòn ákmona	τὼ ἄκμονε tṑ ákmone	τοὺς ἄκμονᾰς toùs ákmonas
Vocative	ἄκμον ákmon	ἄκμονε ákmone	ἄκμονες ákmones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: άκμων (ákmon), άκμονας (ákmonas)

Further reading

• “ἄκμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄκμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄκμων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄκμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄκμων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄκμων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄκμων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anvil idem, page 32.
  • stithy idem, page 818.