ἄχρι
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Zero grade of μέχρῐ (mékhri), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵʰ(s)ri.
The genitive is from the PIE ablative of comparison/extent.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.kʰri/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.kʰri/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.xri/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.xri/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.xri/
Adverb
[edit]ἄχρῐ • (ákhri)
- to the very bottom, to the uttermost, utterly
- (after Homer, before prepositions)
Preposition
[edit]ἄχρῐ • (ákhri) (governs the genitive)
- even to, as far as
- (of time) until
- Apollodorus, The Disappearing Man 1
- (of space) as far as, even to
- (of measure or degree) up to this point
- (of time) until
Conjunction
[edit]ἄχρῐ • (ákhri)
References
[edit]- “ἄχρι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄχρι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄχρι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄχρι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄχρι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G891 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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