ἀκροστιχίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀκρόστιχα n pl (akróstikha)

Etymology

From ἄκρος (ákros, “at the beginning”) +‎ στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos, “row”) +‎ -ίς (-ís)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kros.ti.kʰís/ → /a.kros.tiˈçis/ → /a.kros.tiˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kros.ti.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/

Noun

ἀκροστῐχίς • (akrostĭkhís) f (genitive ἀκροστῐχίδος); third declension

1. (poetry) acrostic

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́ς; τῆς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́ς hē ăkrostĭkhĭ́s	τὼ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε tṑ ăkrostĭkhĭ́de	αἱ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δες hai ăkrostĭkhĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δος tês ăkrostĭkhĭ́dos	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δοιν toîn ăkrostĭkhĭ́doin	τῶν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δων tôn ăkrostĭkhĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δῐ têi ăkrostĭkhĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δοιν toîn ăkrostĭkhĭ́doin	ταῖς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́σῐ / ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́σῐν taîs ăkrostĭkhĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δᾰ tḕn ăkrostĭkhĭ́dă	τὼ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε tṑ ăkrostĭkhĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s ăkrostĭkhĭ́dăs
Vocative	ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́ς ăkrostĭkhĭ́s	ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε ăkrostĭkhĭ́de	ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δες ăkrostĭkhĭ́des
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.

Descendants

• → Georgian: აკროსტიქი (aḳrosṭiki)
• → Late Latin: acrostichis
  • → Dutch: acrostichon
  • → Esperanto: akrostiĥo
  • → Middle French: acrostiche, acrostique (learned)
    • French: acrostiche
    • → English: acrostic
  • → Irish: acrastaic
  • → Polish: akrostych
• → Serbo-Croatian: ȁkrostih
• → Bulgarian: акрости́х (akrostíh)
• → Macedonian: акростих (akrostih)
• → Russian: акрости́х (akrostíx)

Further reading

• ἀκροστιχίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκροστιχίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀκροστιχίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀκροστιχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press