αἶνον (ainon)

αἶνον is an Ancient Greek form of αἰνός, meaning “terrible, dread; (noun) tale”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.405: πεπτάμενον φηγοῖο δράκων, τέρας αἰνὸν ἰδέσθαι,

Theocritus, Ἐπιγράμματα 10.4: αἶνον ἔχων Μουσέων οὐκ ἐπιλανθάνεται.

Polybius, Histories 5.34.8: ἐφήδρευον δὲ τοῖς ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ καὶ τοῖς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ πράγμασι, τῶν κατʼ Αἶνον καὶ Μαρώνειαν καὶ πορρώτερον ἔτι πόλεων κυριεύοντες.

All forms of αἰνός (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.