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ἄκρου (akrou)

ἄκρου is an Ancient Greek form of ἄκρος, meaning “topmost, highest; (noun) peak, tip”.

It can also be a form of ἄκρον, “peak, summit, tip”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.14: ἐξέκλινε δέ, φησί, καὶ τὸ πολυδημῶδες, ὡς ἐπʼ ἄκρου καθίζεσθαι τοῦ βάθρου, κερδαίνοντα τὸ γοῦν ἕτερον μέρος τῆς ἐνοχλήσεως. οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ μετὰ πλειόνων δύο ἢ τριῶν …

All forms of ἄκρος (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.