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γένεια (geneia)

γένεια is an Ancient Greek form of γένειον, meaning “chin, beard”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 6.36: καὶ καλὰ μὲν τὰ γένεια, καλὰ δέ μευ ἁ μία κώρα,

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.17.1: … ὰ τὰ προειρημένα· τῆς Ἥρας δέ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ ναῷ Διός, τὸ δὲ Ἥρας ἄγαλμα καθήμενόν ἐστιν ἐπὶ θρόνῳ· παρέστηκε δὲ γένειά τε ἔχων καὶ ἐπικείμενος κυνῆν ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ, ἔργα δέ ἐστιν ἁπλᾶ. τὰς δὲ ἐφεξῆς τούτων καθημένας ἐπὶ θρόνων Ὥρ …

All forms of γένειον (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.