ἀκτίς

Ancient Greek

Unclear. Sometimes compared with Sanskrit अक्तु (aktu, “beam, ray”)[1][2], but there are difficulties in semantics.

ἀκτῑ́ς • (aktī́s) f (genitive ἀκτῖνος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀκτῑ́ς; τῆς ἀκτῖνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀκτῑ́ς hē aktī́s	τὼ ἀκτῖνε tṑ aktîne	αἱ ἀκτῖνες hai aktînes
Genitive	τῆς ἀκτῖνος tês aktînos	τοῖν ἀκτῑ́νοιν toîn aktī́noin	τῶν ἀκτῑ́νων tôn aktī́nōn
Dative	τῇ ἀκτῖνῐ têi aktîni	τοῖν ἀκτῑ́νοιν toîn aktī́noin	ταῖς ἀκτῖσῐ / ἀκτῖσῐν taîs aktîsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀκτῖνᾰ tḕn aktîna	τὼ ἀκτῖνε tṑ aktîne	τᾱ̀ς ἀκτῖνᾰς tā̀s aktînas
Vocative	ἀκτῑ́ς aktī́s	ἀκτῖνε aktîne	ἀκτῖνες aktînes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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
Adams & Mallory (2006): The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, p. 306

ἀκτίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀκτίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀκτίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀκτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀκτίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀκτίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
ἀκτίς 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beam idem, page 66.
- brightness idem, page 98.
- gleam idem, page 361.
- glimmer idem, page 362.
- ray idem, page 674.
- sunbeam idem, page 838.

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