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γάμοις (gamois)

γάμοις is an Ancient Greek form of γάμος, meaning “marriage, wedding”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 88 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.2: … τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι, Θαργηλιῶνος ἑβδόμῃ, καθʼ ἣν Δήλιοι τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα γενέσθαι φασί. τελευτᾷ δὲ—ὥς φησιν Ἕρμιππος, ἔν γάμοις δειπνῶν—τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει τῆς ὀγδόης καὶ ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, βιοὺς ἔτος ἓν πρὸς τοῖς ὀγδοήκοντα.

Aesop, Fables 77: Γάμοις ἔχαιρον βάτραχοι τοῖς Ἡλίου. Καί τις πρὸς αὐτούς εἶπεν· “ὦ δειλὸν γένος· εἰ γὰρ μόνου τρέμοιμεν αὐγὰς ἡλίου, τίς, εἴγε τεκνώσειε, τοῦτον βαστάσει; “ Πρὸς τούς ἐπʼ ἰδίᾳ βλάβῃ ἀγνωσίᾳ χαίροντας.

All forms of γάμος (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.