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ἄκρῳ (akro)

ἄκρῳ is an Ancient Greek form of ἄκρος, meaning “topmost, highest; (noun) peak, tip”. It is the dative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ἄκρον, “peak, summit, tip”.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.37: οὐ χειμῶνος ἄκρω· ταρσοὶ δʼ ὑπεραχθέες αἰεί.

Plutarch, Alexander 35.2: … ἱ βάρβαροι τὸν ἄγοντα πρὸς τὴν κατάλυσιν τοῦ βασιλέως στενωπὸν ἐλαφρῶ τῷ φαρμάκῳ κατεψέκασαν εἶτα στάντες ἐπʼ ἄκρῳ τοὺς λαμπτῆρας τοῖς βεβρεγμένοις προσέθηκαν ἤδη γὰρ συνεσκόταζε. τῶν δὲ πρώτων εὐθὺς ἁψαμένων οὐκ ἔσχεν ἡ νομ …

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.