Κέκροπος (Kekropos)

Κέκροπος is an Ancient Greek form of Κέκροψ, meaning “Kekrops — according to Apollodorus the first king of Attica, which derived from him its name Cecropia…”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.15.1: ξυνεβεβήκει δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πάνυ ἀρχαίου ἑτέρων μᾶλλον Ἀθηναίοις τοῦτο. ἐπὶ γὰρ Κέκροπος καὶ τῶν πρώτων βασιλέων ἡ Ἀττικὴ ἐς Θησέα αἰεὶ κατὰ πόλεις ᾠκεῖτο πρυτανεῖά τε ἐχούσας καὶ ἄρχοντας, καὶ ὁπότ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.58: … Ἑλληνικὰ πράγματα δείξας, ὡς καλὸν ἡ σοφίη μνήσατο Σωκράτεος. ἄλλο, ὡς ἐτελεύτα· εἰ καὶ σέ, Ξενοφῶν, Κραναοῦ Κέκροπός τε πολῖται φεύγειν κατέγνων, τοῦ φίλου χάριν Κύρου· ἀλλὰ Κόρινθος ἔδεκτο φιλόξενος, ᾗ σὺ φιληδῶν οὕτως ἀρέσκῃ …

All forms of Κέκροψ (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.