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γνησίαν (gnesian)

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

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 18.4: … τῆς αἰτίας, εἰ δεινὸν ἔργον οὕτως ἔδρασε καὶ παρεκινδύνευσεν ἡ Παρύσατις διὰ Κλέαρχον, ἀνελεῖν τολμήσασα τὴν γνησίαν βασιλέως γυναῖκα καὶ τέκνων κοινωνὸν ἐπὶ βασιλείᾳ τρεφομένων.

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.