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Κύπριν (Kyprin)

Κύπριν is an Ancient Greek form of Κύπρις, meaning “Kypris — Aphrodite (“the Cyprian”)”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.860: Κύπριν ἀοιδῇσιν θυέεσσί τε μειλίσσοντο.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 26: … , τῷ δʼ ἐπαινέσει τὸ παραινέσει, καὶ ταῦτα πάρισα· οὐ Λικύμνιοι ταῦτʼ εἰσὶν οὐδʼ Ἀγάθωνες οἱ λέγοντες ὕβριν ἤ κύπριν μισθῷ ποθὲν ἢ μόχθον πατρίδων, ἀλλʼ ὁ δαιμόνιος ἑρμηνεῦσαι Πλάτων. καὶ οὐ τοῖς σχήμασιν ἐπιτιμῶ· φέρει γάρ πο …

All forms of Κύπρις (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.