γελοῖα (geloia)

γελοῖα is an Ancient Greek form of γελάω, meaning “laugh”.

It can also be a form of γέλοιος, “laughable, ridiculous”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or nominative dual feminine adjective.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 15.6: … δὲ τόπον Ἰλίκιον ἀπʼ ἐκείνου προσαγορευθῆναι καὶ τὸν καθαρμὸν οὕτω συντελεῖσθαι. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν τὰ μυθώδη καὶ γελοῖα τὴν τῶν τότε ἀνθρώπων ἐπιδείκνυται διάθεσιν πρὸς τὸ θεῖον, ἣν ὁ ἐθισμὸς αὐτοῖς ἐνεποίησεν. αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν Νομᾶν …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 8.8.3: … καὶ ἡδίω τὸν βίον ἡμῶν πεποίηκεν. ἡ δὲ τῶν Πυθαγορικῶν πρὸς τὸν ἰχθῦν ἐκεχειρία διὰ τὸ μὴ σύμφυλον ἄτοπος καὶ γελοία μᾶλλον δʼ ἀνήμερος ὅλως καὶ Κυκλώπειόν τι τοῖς ἄλλοις γέρας νέμουσα τῆς συγγενείας καὶ τῆς οἰκειότητος, ὀψοπο …

Sophocles, Ichneutae 369: [ο]ὐκ ἐκ θεῶν τὰ μῶρα καὶ γέλοια χρὴ

All forms of γελάω (conjugation 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.