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γαῖαν (gaian)

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

Found 414 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.174: ὄλβῳ κυδιόων· μέγα δʼ ἵετο Κολχίδα γαῖαν

Euripides, Medea 752: ὄμνυμι Γαῖαν Ἡλίου θ’ ἁγνὸν σέβας

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1110: μηδὲ γαῖάν ποτʼ ἔλθοι Λάκαιναν πατρῷ-

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.