Μοῖραι (Moirai)

Μοῖραι is an Ancient Greek form of μοῖρα, meaning “share, portion; fate”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.30: εἰς δὲ τὸν Δίωνα ὧδε· δάκρυα μὲν Ἑκάβῃ τε καὶ Ἰλιάδεσσι γυναιξὶ Μοῖραι ἐπέκλωσαν δὴ τότε γεινομέναις, σοὶ δέ, Δίων, ῥέξαντι καλῶν ἐπινίκιον ἔργων δαίμονες εὐροίας ἐλπίδας ἐξέχεαν. κεῖσαι δʼ εὐρυχόρῳ ἐν πατρίδι τίμιος ἀστοῖς, ὦ ἐμὸν ἐκμήνας θυμὸν ἔρωτι Δίων.

Plutarch, De Tranquillitate Animi 15: … βίου ἀγαθός, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον, ὡς Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, διτταί τινες ἕκαστον ἡμῶν γιγνόμενον παραλαμβάνουσι καὶ κατάρχονται μοῖραι καὶ δαίμονες· ἔνθʼ ἦσαν Χθονίη τε καὶ Ἡλιόπη ταναῶπις, δῆρίς θʼ αἱματόεσσα καὶ Ἁρμονίη θεμερῶπις, Καλλιστὼ τʼ …

Lucian of Samosata, Juppiter Confutatus 2: … ίνου ὃ τέως παρὸν ἐρραψῴδει διʼ αὐτῶν. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὲν οὕτω φήσομεν. ἔτι δὲ κἀκεῖνό μοι ἀπόκριναι· οὐ τρεῖς αἱ Μοῖραί εἰσι, Κλωθὼ καὶ Λάχεσις, οἶμαι, καὶ Ἄτροπος; πάνυ μὲν οὖν.

All forms of μοῖρα (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.