Etymology

Traditionally taken as a compound of ἀκή (akḗ, “point”) +‎ ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)Category:Ancient Greek compound terms#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣ; however, see ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorny plant”) for more.^[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ἄκᾰνθος • (ákănthos) m or f (genitive ἀκᾰ́νθου)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek second-declension nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns with multiple genders#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣ; second declension

1. The acanthus plant
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)Category:Requests for verification in Ancient Greek entries#ΑΚΑΝΘΟΣ thorn, spine, prickle

References

Further reading

• “ἄκανθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄκανθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• ἄκανθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄκανθος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎ (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “ἄκανθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄκανθος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011