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γνώριμον (gnorimon)

γνώριμον is an Ancient Greek form of γνώριμος, meaning “well known; acquaintance”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 124 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66.4: κατὰ δὲ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ προσολοφύρασθαί τινι ἀγανακτήσαντα, ὥστε ἀμύνασθαι ἐπιβουλεύσαντα, ἀδύνατον ἦν· ἢ γὰρ ἀγνῶτα ἂν ηὗρεν ᾧ ἐρεῖ ἢ γνώριμον ἄπιστον.

Strabo, Geography 11.2.2: … εἰς τὰ ἀρκτικώτατα μέρη τῆς Μαιώτιδος ἑξήκοντα σταδίους ἀλλήλων διέχουσαι), τοῦ δʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐκβολῶν ὀλίγον τὸ γνώριμόν ἐστι διὰ τὰ ψύχη καὶ τὰς ἀπορίας τῆς χώρας, ἃς οἱ μὲν αὐτόχθονες δύνανται φέρειν σαρξὶ καὶ γάλακτι τρεφόμενοι …

All forms of γνώριμος (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.