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ἀκάνθας (akanthas)

ἀκάνθας is an Ancient Greek form of ἄκανθα, meaning “thorn”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 6.15: ἁ δὲ καὶ αὐτόθε τοι διαθρύπτεται, ὡς ἀπʼ ἀκάνθας

All forms of ἄκανθα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.