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γειτόνων (geitonon)

γειτόνων is an Ancient Greek form of γείτων, meaning “neighbour”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of γειτονέω, “be a neighbour”.

Found 92 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 7.2: … . ὃ καὶ μάλιστα τὴν Λυκούργου σοφίαν καὶ πρόνοιαν ἐποίησε φανερὰν εἰς τὰς Μεσσηνίων καὶ Ἀργείων, συγγενῶν καὶ γειτόνων, δήμων καὶ βασιλέων στάσεις καὶ κακοπολιτείας ἀφορῶσιν,

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1525: δορός τʼ ἐπακτοῦ γειτονῶν ἀεὶ τιθῇ.

All forms of γείτων (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.