Φοίνικας (Phoinikas)

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

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87.3: … ῶν Πελοποννησίων (τροφὴν γοῦν οὐδὲν βέλτιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ χεῖρον ὁ Τάμως, ᾧ προσετάχθη, παρεῖχεν), οἱ δὲ ἵνα τοὺς Φοίνικας προαγαγὼν ἐς τὴν Ἄσπενδον ἐκχρηματίσαιτο ἀφείς (καὶ γὰρ ὣς αὐτοῖς οὐδὲν ἔμελλε χρήσεσθαι), ἄλλοι δ’ ὡς καταβο …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.86: καὶ μὴν Φοινίκας ἀποτέμνεται Ἀρραβίας τε

Euripides, Helen 181: φοίνικας ἁλίου πέπλους

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.