Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /aktí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aktí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aktí/

Noun

ἀκτή • ‎(aktḗ) f ‎(genitive ἀκτῆς); first declension

1. headland, cape, promontory
   • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 237-238

     ἀκτή τις ἔστ᾽ Εὐβοιίς, ἔνθ᾽ ὁρίζεται
     βωμοὺς τέλη τ᾽ ἔγκαρπα Κηναίῳ Διί.

     There is a headland of Euboea, where to Cenaean Zeus he marks out altars and fruitful ground in tribute. — Sir Richard Jebb, 1892 translation.

2. Any raised place
   • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 721

     ὦ πότνια χθὼν καὶ πότνι᾽ ἀκτὴ
     χώματος [...]

     O hallowed earth, and hallowed barrow raised high [...] — Herbert Weir Smyth, 1926 translation

Inflection

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps related to ἀκή ‎(akḗ, “point, edge”) or ὄχθη ‎(ókhthē, “height, bank”).

Noun

ἀκτή • ‎(aktḗ) f ‎(genitive ἀκτῆς); first declension

1. (poetic) corn (grains of cereal crops)
   • Homer Illiad, 630-631

     [...] χάλκειον κάνεον, ἐπὶ δὲ κρόμυον ποτῷ ὄψον,
     ἠδὲ μέλι χλωρόν, παρὰ δ᾽ ἀλφίτου ἱεροῦ ἀκτήν, [...]

     [...] a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley-meal. — Samuel Butler, 1898 translation

Inflection

References

• ἀκτή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀκτή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀκτή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀκτή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀκτή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀκτή» 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.
  • Acte idem, page 999.
  • beach idem, page 66.
  • cape idem, page 111.
  • coast idem, page 141.
  • foreland idem, page 336.
  • headland idem, page 390.
  • point idem, page 623.
  • promontory idem, page 653.
  • shore idem, page 768.