ἀκίς

See also: -άκης, -άκις, Ἄκις, and Ἆκις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kís/ → /aˈcis/ → /aˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈcis/

Noun

ἀκίς • (akís) f (genitive ἀκίδος); third declension

1. pointed object
   1. barb of an arrow or hook
   2. arrow, dart
   3. (figurative) stings (of desire)
      1. (in the plural) sharp, acute pains
2. surgical bandage

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀκῐ́ς; τῆς ἀκῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀκῐ́ς hē akĭ́s	τὼ ἀκῐ́δε tṑ akĭ́de	αἱ ἀκῐ́δες hai akĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ἀκῐ́δος tês akĭ́dos	τοῖν ἀκῐ́δοιν toîn akĭ́doin	τῶν ἀκῐ́δων tôn akĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἀκῐ́δῐ têi akĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ἀκῐ́δοιν toîn akĭ́doin	ταῖς ἀκῐ́σῐ / ἀκῐ́σῐν taîs akĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀκῐ́δᾰ tḕn akĭ́dă	τὼ ἀκῐ́δε tṑ akĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ἀκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s akĭ́dăs
Vocative	ἀκῐ́ς akĭ́s	ἀκῐ́δε akĭ́de	ἀκῐ́δες akĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “ἀκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀκίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barb idem, page 62.