Ancient Greek

Noun

ἄκᾰνθᾰ • ‎(ákantha) f ‎(genitive ἀκᾰ́νθης); first declension

1. A thorny plant
2. A thorn, spine, or prickle
3. (figuratively) Something difficult or painful.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀκᾰ́νθῐον ‎(akánthion)

Descendants

• Translingual: Acanthagenys

References

• ἄκανθα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄκανθα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄκανθα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄκανθα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄκανθα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄκανθα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G173”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἄκανθα» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • backbone idem, page 58.
  • brier idem, page 98.
  • fish bone idem, page 323.
  • prickle idem, page 640.
  • spine idem, page 802.
  • thistle idem, page 867.
  • thorn idem, page 867.