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ἀκροποσθία

Language

See also: ακροποσθία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́η (ăkroposthĭ́ē) — Ionic
ᾰ̓κροπόσθῐον (ăkropósthĭon)

Etymology

From ᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros, “highest; topmost”) +‎ ποσθῐ́ᾱ (posthĭ́ā, “foreskin”)Category:Ancient Greek compound terms#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kro.pos.tʰí.aː/Category:Ancient Greek 5-syllable words#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.kro.posˈtʰi.a/Category:Ancient Greek 5-syllable words#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.kro.posˈθi.a/Category:Ancient Greek 5-syllable words#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.kro.posˈθi.a/Category:Ancient Greek 5-syllable words#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.kro.posˈθi.a/Category:Ancient Greek 5-syllable words#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ

Noun

ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ • (ăkroposthĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱς)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek nouns#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek first-declension nouns#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Pages with entries#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ Category:Pages with 1 entry#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ; first declension

(anatomy Category:grc:Anatomy#ΑΚΡΟΠΟΣΘΙΑ) akroposthion (the tip of the foreskin)
Near-synonyms: πόσθη (pósthē), ᾰ̓κροβῠστῐ́ᾱ (ăkrobŭstĭ́ā)

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ hē ăkroposthĭ́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăkroposthĭ́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́αι hai ăkroposthĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱς tês ăkroposthĭ́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́αιν toîn ăkroposthĭ́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓κροποσθῐῶν tôn ăkroposthĭôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾳ tēî ăkroposthĭ́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́αιν toîn ăkroposthĭ́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́αις taîs ăkroposthĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱν tḕn ăkroposthĭ́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ tṑ ăkroposthĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ăkroposthĭ́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ ăkroposthĭ́ā	ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́ᾱ ăkroposthĭ́ā	ᾰ̓κροποσθῐ́αι ăkroposthĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ English: akroposthion
Greek: ακροποσθία (akroposthía)

Further reading

“ἀκροποσθία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀκροποσθία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀκροποσθία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)

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