αἰνίγματα (ainigmata)

αἰνίγματα is an Ancient Greek form of αἴνιγμα, meaning “riddle”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 138: Φοίβου μʼ ὑπῆλθε δυστόπαστʼ αἰνίγματα.

Lucian of Samosata, Deorum concilium 11: αἰσχρὰ ὡς ἀληθῶς ταῦτα φὴς τὰ περὶ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων· ὅμως δʼ οὖν, ὦ Μῶμε, τὰ πολλὰ αὐτῶν αἰνίγματά ἐστιν, καὶ οὐ πάνυ χρὴ καταγελᾶν ἀμύητον ὄντα. πάνυ γοῦν μυστηρίων, ὦ Ζεῦ, δεῖ ἡμῖν, ὡς εἰδέναι θεοὺς μὲν τοὺ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 19.2: … ἶτά σοι εὐξαμένῳ ἔδωκεν νέον εἶναι καὶ καλὸν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς καὶ ἀξιέραστον; Οὔκ, ἀλλὰ τοιοῦτος ὢν περιπόθητος ἦν. Αἰνίγματα λέγεις.

All forms of αἴνιγμα (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.