ἀκροστιχίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀκρόστιχα n pl (akróstikha)

Etymology

From ἄκρος (ákros, “at the beginning”) +‎ στῐ́χος (stíkhos, “row”) +‎ -ίς (-ís)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.kros.ti.kʰís/ → /a.kros.tiˈçis/ → /a.kros.tiˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kros.ti.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.kros.tiˈçis/

Noun

ἀκροστῐχίς • (akrostikhís) f (genitive ἀκροστῐχίδος); third declension

1. (poetry) acrostic

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀ̆κροστῐχί̆ς; τῆς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀ̆κροστῐχί̆ς hē akrostikhís	τὼ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε tṑ akrostikhíde	αἱ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δες hai akrostikhídes
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δος tês akrostikhídos	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δοιν toîn akrostikhídoin	τῶν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δων tôn akrostikhídōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δῐ têi akrostikhídi	τοῖν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δοιν toîn akrostikhídoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́σῐ / ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́σῐν taîs akrostikhísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δᾰ tḕn akrostikhída	τὼ ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε tṑ akrostikhíde	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s akrostikhídas
Vocative	ἀ̆κροστῐχί̆ς akrostikhís	ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δε akrostikhíde	ᾰ̓κροστῐχῐ́δες akrostikhídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Georgian: აკროსტიქი (aḳrosṭiki)
• → Late Latin: acrostichis
  • → Dutch: acrostichon
  • → Esperanto: akrostiĥo
  • → Middle French: acrostiche, acrostique (learned)
    • French: acrostiche
    • → English: acrostic
  • → Irish: acrastaic
  • → Polish: akrostych
• → Serbo-Croatian: ȁkrostih
• → Bulgarian: акрости́х (akrostíh)
• → Macedonian: акростих (akrostih)
• → Russian: акрости́х (akrostíx)

Further reading

• ἀκροστιχίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀκροστιχίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀκροστιχίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀκροστιχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press