ἄκρος

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic остръ (ostrŭ), Latin ācer, Old Armenian ասեղն (asełn, “needle”) and Old English ecg (English edge).

ᾰ̓́κρος • (ákros) m (feminine ᾰ̓́κρᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓́κρον); first/second declension

1. At the edge, extreme, beginning, end: outermost (especially of the top)
2. pointed, sharp
3. Being the most of any characteristic: best, oldest, first

• ἀκή (akḗ)

• Greek: άκρος (ákros, “extreme”)

• ἄκρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄκρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄκρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄκρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄκρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄκρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• ἄκρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• ἄκρος 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.
  • brim idem, page 98.
  • champion idem, page 123.
  • consummate idem, page 166.
  • edge idem, page 261.
  • extreme idem, page 298.
  • extremity idem, page 298.
  • finished idem, page 321.
  • good idem, page 366.
  • inmost idem, page 442.
  • lip idem, page 494.
  • master idem, page 517.
  • masterly idem, page 517.
  • matchless idem, page 517.
  • pastmaster (in) idem, page 598.
  • rim idem, page 715.
  • skilful idem, page 780.
  • supreme idem, page 842.
  • tip idem, page 877.
  • top idem, page 881.
  • topmost idem, page 881.
  • uppermost idem, page 938.
  • verge idem, page 948.