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γνάθους (gnathous)

γνάθους is an Ancient Greek form of γνάθος, meaning “jaw”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De cohibenda ira 6: … ὑπὸ τοῦ σατύρου νουθετεῖσθαι καὶ μὴ προσέχειν· οὔ τοι πρέπει τὸ σχῆμα· τοὺς αὐλοὺς μέθες καὶ θὦπλα λάζευ καὶ γνάθους εὐθημόνει· θεασαμένην δὲ τοῦ προσώπου τὴν ὄψιν ἐν ποταμῷ τινι δυσχερᾶναι καὶ προέσθαι τοὺς αὐλούς· καίτοι παρ …

All forms of γνάθος (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.