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γαίας (gaias)

γαίας is an Ancient Greek form of γαῖα, meaning “earth, land”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.76: πολλᾶς δὲ κρατέει γαίας, πολλᾶς δὲ θαλάσσας.

Euripides, Ion 147: Γαίας παγάν,

All forms of γαῖα (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.