ἀκαρί
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ἄκαρι (ákari)
Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; probably Pre-Greek. Compare κάρνος (kárnos, “louse”), κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”).[1] Sometimes connected to ἀκαρής (akarḗs).
Noun
[edit]ἀκαρί • (akarí) n (indeclinable)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀκαρί”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49
Further reading
[edit]- “ἀκαρί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀκαρί in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “acarid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.