γνήσιον (gnesion)

γνήσιον is an Ancient Greek form of γνήσιος, meaning “legitimate, genuine”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 8.12: διʼ ὃ καὶ μάλιστα δοκεῖ τὸν Δημήτριον φοβηθεὶς ἀποκτεῖναι, μὴ γνήσιον ἔχων ὃ οἶκος διάδοχον ἀποκαλύψῃ τὴν ἐκείνου νοθείαν.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 38·9: … θεῖεν ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων αἱ ὑποστάσεις διὰ τῶν ἐπιφαινομένων σημείων ὁ ἀποστολικὸς πραγματεύεται λόγος, ἀλλʼ ὅπως τὸ γνήσιόν τε καὶ ἀδιάστατον καὶ συνημμένον τῆς τοῦ Υἱοῦ πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα σχέσεως νοηθείη. καὶ γὰρ οὐκ εἶπεν, Ὃς ὢν δόξα …

All forms of γνήσιος (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.