γυμνοί (gymnoi)

γυμνοί is an Ancient Greek form of γυμνός, meaning “naked, unarmed”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of γυμνόω, “strip bare”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49.5: … ξηνθηκός· τὰ δὲ ἐντὸς οὕτως ἐκάετο ὥστε μήτε τῶν πάνυ λεπτῶν ἱματίων καὶ σινδόνων τὰς ἐπιβολὰς μηδ’ ἄλλο τι ἢ γυμνοὶ ἀνέχεσθαι, ἥδιστά τε ἂν ἐς ὕδωρ ψυχρὸν σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ῥίπτειν. καὶ πολλοὶ τοῦτο τῶν ἠμελημένων ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἔδρα …

Plutarch, Romulus 21.5: … δεῖ τὰ μειράκια μετὰ τὴν ἀπόμαξιν. ἐκ δὲ τούτου τὰ δέρματα τῶν αἰγῶν κατατεμόντες, διαθέουσιν ἐν περιζώσμασι γυμνοί, τοῖς σκύτεσι τὸν ἐμποδὼν παίοντες. αἱ δʼ ἐν ἡλικίᾳ γυναῖκες οὐ φεύγουσι τὸ παίεσθαι, νομίζουσαι πρὸς εὐτοκία …

Strabo, Geography 16.1.9: … ιν ὑπουργίας μεγάλας· βαθεῖα γὰρ ἡ γῆ καὶ μαλακὴ καὶ εὐένδοτος ὥστε καὶ ἐκσύρεται ῥᾳδίως ὑπὸ τῶν ῥευμάτων καὶ γυμνοῖ τὰ πεδία, πληροῖ δὲ τὰς διώρυγας καὶ τὰ στόματα αὐτῶν ἐμφράττει ῥᾳδίως ἡ χοῦς· οὕτω δὲ συμβαίνει πάλιν τὴν ὑπ …

All forms of γυμνός (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.