ἄκαρπον (akarpon)

ἄκαρπον is an Ancient Greek form of ἄκαρπος, meaning “without fruit, barren; fruitless, unprofitable”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.171: … ίγα ἁμαρτάνω. προκρίνων δὲ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ βίον τοῦ τῶν πλουσίων ἔλεγεν, ἐν ᾧ σφαιρίζουσιν ἐκεῖνοι γῆν σκληρὰν καὶ ἄκαρπον αὐτὸς ἐργάζεσθαι σκάπτων. πολλάκις δὲ καὶ ἑαυτῷ ἐπέπληττεν· ὧν ἀκούσας Ἀρίστων, τίνι, ἔφη, ἐπιπλήττεις; καὶ ὃ …

Plutarch, Lycurgus 19.1: … ους πρὸς τὰς ἀποκρίσεις μηχανώμενος, ὡς γάρ τὸ σπέρμα τῶν πρὸς τὰς συνουσίας ἀκολάστων ἄγονον ὡς τὰ πολλὰ καὶ ἄκαρπόν ἐστιν, οὕτως ἡ πρὸς τὸ λαλεῖν ἀκρασία κενὸν τὸν λόγον ποιεῖ καὶ ἀνόητον.

Aesop, Fables 313: … ποις ἐστὶ τὸ δένδρον. δὲ ὑποτυχοῦσα ἔφη· “ ὦ ἀχάριστοι, ἔτι τῆς ἐξ ἐμοῦ εὐεργεσίας ἀπολαύοντες ἀχρείαν με καὶ ἂκαρπον ἀποκαλεῖτε;“ Οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τινὲς οὕτω ἀτυχεῖς εἰσιν, ὡς καὶ εὐεργετοῦντες τοὺς πέλας ἐπὶ τῇ χρηστότητ …

All forms of ἄκαρπος (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.