ἄρκτος, ἡ,
bear, especially
Ursus arctos, brown bear, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: the instances of the
masculine are uncertain [
Refs 4th c.BC+], the
feminine being used even when both sexes are included, [
Refs]
2) Ἄρκτος, ἡ, the constellation
Ursa Major, Ἄρκτον θ᾽, ἣν καὶ Ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν[
Refs 8th c.BC+]: in
plural,
the Greater and Lesser Bears, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; Ἄ. μικρά, μεγάλη, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
3)
the north, πρὸς ἄρκτον τετραμμένος[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3.b) ἡ ἑτέρα ἄ.
the south pole, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II) ἄρκτος, ἡ, at Athens
a girl appointed to the service of Artemis Brauronia or Ἀρχηγέτις, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) a kind of
crab, probably
Scyllarus arctus, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV) ἄρκτου δένδρον, ={ἀκτῆ}, Ps.-[
Refs 1st c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit
ṛk[snull]as, Latin
ursus, etc.)