ἄκαρπ-ος, ον,
without fruit, barren, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 898.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 91c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. ξύλον, ={ἀκακία}, [[ LXX.Isa.41.19: with _genitive_, λίμνη ἄ. ἰχθύων 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.7.3. ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, fruitless, unprofitable, πόνος[[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 7.5; λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 277a; τὰ ἄ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1125a11] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -πως[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 254. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II active, making barren, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 942, compare 1st c.BC(?): Maximus Astrologus Tyr. 5.4.] Refs 4th c.BC+]