Χάριτες (Charites)

Χάριτες is an Ancient Greek form of χάρις, meaning “favour, grace, thanks”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Χάρις, “Charis — grace, favour; a Grace (Charis)”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.425: Δίῃ ἐν ἀμφιάλῳ Χάριτες θεαί· αὐτὰρ ὁ παιδὶ

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.77: (οὐ γὰρ συμφωνοῦσιν πραγματεῖαι καὶ φροντίδες καὶ ὀργαὶ καὶ χάριτες μακαριότητι, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ καὶ φόβῳ καὶ προσδεήσει τῶν πλησίον ταῦτα γίγνεται), μήτε αὖ πυρὸς ἀνάμματα συν …

Plutarch, Cato the Younger 45.3: … λατίαν ὃ οὔτʼ ἐκεῖνος ᾔτησε παρʼ ὑμῶν οὔτε οὗτος ἔδωκε μεθʼ ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ δυνάμεις τηλικαῦται καὶ ὅπλα καὶ ἵπποι χάριτές εἰσιν ἰδιωτῶν καὶ ἀντιδόσεις.

All forms of χάρις (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.