Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀκμή • ‎(akmḗ) f ‎(genitive ἀκμῆς); first declension

1. point, edge
2. the highest or culminating point of something, bloom, flower, prime, zenith, especially of a person's age
3. time, the best or most fitting time

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: ακμή ‎(akmí)

References

• ἀκμή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀκμή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀκμή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀκμή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀκμή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀκμή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acme idem, page 8.
  • barb idem, page 62.
  • blade idem, page 81.
  • bloom idem, page 84.
  • brink idem, page 100.
  • climax idem, page 137.
  • crisis idem, page 184.
  • critical idem, page 185.
  • edge idem, page 261.
  • end idem, page 272.
  • flower idem, page 329.
  • height idem, page 394.
  • heyday idem, page 398.
  • high time idem, page 399.
  • hour idem, page 408.
  • life idem, page 489.
  • manhood idem, page 511.
  • mature idem, page 518.
  • maturity idem, page 518.
  • occasion idem, page 568.
  • perfection idem, page 605.
  • pinnacle idem, page 614.
  • plenitude idem, page 620.
  • point idem, page 623.
  • prime idem, page 640.
  • quintessence idem, page 666.
  • rapier idem, page 672.
  • ripeness idem, page 716.
  • spike idem, page 801.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • summit idem, page 837.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • tip idem, page 877.
  • top idem, page 881.
  • vertex idem, page 949.
  • vigour idem, page 952.
  • youth idem, page 997.
  • zenith idem, page 997.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill