Δαίδαλον (Daidalon)

Δαίδαλον is an Ancient Greek form of Δαίδαλος, meaning “Daedalus — the legendary craftsman”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of δαίδαλος, “skilfully wrought”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 471: ξύλον καθίει δαίδαλον, ψευδῆ δόσιν.

Plutarch, Theseus 19.5: ἐπεὶ δὲ Δευκαλίων ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ πολεμικῶς ἔχων πρὸς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἔπεμψεν, ἐκδιδόναι Δαίδαλον αὑτῷ κελεύων ἢ τοὺς παῖδας ἀποκτενεῖν ἀπειλῶν οὓς ἔλαβεν ὁμήρους ὁ Μίνως, τούτῳ μὲν ἀπεκρίνατο πρᾴως ὁ Θησέυς …

Plato, Greater Hippias 282: εἰ ἄρα νῦν ἡμῖν, ὦ Ἱππία, ὁ Βίας ἀναβιοίη, γέλωτʼ ἂν ὄφλοι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸν Δαίδαλόν φασιν οἱ ἀνδριαντοποιοί, νῦν εἰ γενόμενος τοιαῦτʼ ἐργάζοιτο οἷα ἦν ἀφʼ ὧν τοὔνομʼ ἔσχεν, καταγέλαστον ἂν εἶνα …

All forms of Δαίδαλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.