Φοίνικα (Phoinika)

Φοίνικα is an Ancient Greek form of Φοῖνιξ, meaning “Phoenician”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of φοῖνιξ, “Phoenician; palm tree; purple”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.1: … νους Δρυΐδας καὶ Σεμνοθέους, καθά φησιν Ἀριστοτέλης ἐν τῷ Μαγικῷ καὶ Σωτίων ἐν τῷ εἰκοστῷ τρίτῳ τῆς Διαδοχῆς. Φοίνικά τε γενέσθαι Μῶχον, καὶ Θρᾷκα Ζάμολξιν, καὶ Λίβυν Ἄτλαντα. Αἰγύπτιοι μὲν γὰρ Νείλου γενέσθαι παῖδα Ἥφαιστον, ὃ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.195: τοῖο σάκος, φοίνικα δʼ ὅσον λόφον ἵκετʼ ἀκωκή.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1099: κεῖ φοίνικά θʼ ἁβροκόμαν

All forms of Φοῖνιξ (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.