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- α867Ἀκήνin silence[Meaning] quietly.highshort
- α868Ἀκηράσιονunmixed[Meaning something] unadulterated. Deathless, uncorrupted. And Homer [writes]: "sweet [and] unmixed, a divine drink."highshort
- α872Ἀκηχέδαταιthey are in mourning[Meaning] they are grieving.highshort
- α877Ἀκιδνόνfeeble[Meaning] that which is weak. Also [sc. attested is the comparative] a)kidno/teros ["more/rather feeble"], likewise. Homer [writes]: "earth fosters nothing more feeble than man."highshort
- α879Ἄκικυςpowerless[Meaning] one who/which is not sharp.highshort
- α890Ἀκίχηταunattainable [goals][Meaning] unreachable [ones].highshort
- α893Ἀκλειῶςdisreputably, ingloriously[Meaning] dishonorably.highshort
- α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still[Meaning] sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of …highmedium
- α907Ἄκμηνοςfasting[Meaning] untasting. "Fasting from supper."highshort
- α908Ἀκμῆτεςuntiring, unwearied[Meaning they who are] not toiling. Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)kmh/ths, [meaning] he who is not tiring.highshort
- α911Ἄκνηστιςchine, small (of the back)[Meaning] the backbone. [sc. Etymologically the word means] that which one cannot easily scratch [knh/qesqai].highshort
- α917Ἄκολοςcrumb[Meaning] the little morsel. Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] a)ko/lous, [meaning] bits and pieces of loaves. [sc. So called] because they do not stick together [kolla=sqai]. "[I am] begging crumbs, not trophies …highshort
- α927Ἀκοντιστύςjavelin-hurling[Meaning] javelin-throwing.highshort
- α933Ἄκοσμαdisorderly [words][Meaning] unseemly [ones], unorganised [ones].highshort
- α934Ἀκοστήσαςgrain-fed, having fed on grainOut of a)kostai/ [come] kriqai/. kriqia/sas ["barley-fed"]: [meaning] either a)kolasth/as through syncope; or becoming pained by standing; or seeking some cure and remedy for standing. Also in the Epigrams: "the pierced reed pipe, your …highshort
- α935Ἀκοστώσαιςbarley-fed, grain-fed"[[Like] barley-fed] mules on account of laziness and satiety." The linguists [write] kriqiw/sais ["grain-fed"]; for akostai is what they call krithai and take [the word] from akos, "cure"; that is, rest from hunger and …highshort
- α936Ἀκουάζεσθεyou hear[Used] in Homer meaning you perceive, since hearing is the route of perception. As [in] the [phrase]. "but they, perceiving [a)i+/ontes] the blow."highshort
- α953Ἄκρα κόρυμβαhigh-points; fruit-clusters[Meaning] the high-posts of ships, the parts projecting out at the stern or prow. [The places] on which they used to draw/inscribe the totems. Korumboi [are] berries which hang on the branches in grape-cluster …highshort
- α955Ἄκραντονunfinished [task][Meaning one] unfulfilled, incomplete. "A flying reed-arrow carried him off swiftly to the immortals with the speech still unfinished on his lips."highshort
- α983ἈκρίζωI tip, I topThe [verb that means] I cut [off] the tip/top.highshort
- α987ἈκρισιώνηAkrisione, AcrisioneA proper name.highshort
- α988Ἄκριταunceasing [things][Meaning] incessant [ones].highshort
- α990Ἀκριτόμυθοςconfusedly-speaking[Meaning] loquacious, prone to rash words.highshort
- α992Ἀκριτόφυλλονindistinguishably-leaved[Meaning one] grown-together with many trees, so that one cannot distinguish among them which leaves which ones bear. Or shaded.highshort
- α994Ἀκροατὴς καὶ Ἀκροᾶσθαιhearer and to hear[sc. This noun and verb mean, respectively] the learner and to learn. Damascius [writes]: "he heard words [which were] aged and tempered by a certain wisdom". Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)kroama/twn …highshort
- α1004Ἀκροκελαινιόωνgrowing black at the top[Meaning] blackening the top of the wave.highshort
- α1005Ἀκρόκομοιcrown-haired[Meaning men] wearing their hair moderately, or to excess, or wearing it on the crowns of the head.highshort
- α1007Ἀκρόλιονopening-sacrifice[Meaning] first-fruit; just like a first-sacrifice. "The Greeks sacrificed Polyxena as an opening-sacrifice". And elsewhere: "as many votive offerings and opening-sacrifices as there were to the gods".highshort
- α1009Ἄκρον ἐπιλίγδηνgrazing the surface["Grazing" is] an adverb [indicative] of moderation. Meaning e)piyau/dhn, as if to touch only lightly. And [note] that [this occurs in] the Iliad once and in the Odyssey once.highshort
- α1016Ἀκροπόλοισινin the ranges, in lofty places[Meaning] on mountain-ridges.highshort