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γυναῖκας (gynaikas)

γυναῖκας is an Ancient Greek form of γυνή, meaning “woman, wife”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 1,051 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.611: δὴ γὰρ κουριδίας μὲν ἀπηνήναντο γυναῖκας

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.76: … ἀπέθανε Σωκράτης, ἔφη, ὡς ἂν ἐγὼ εὐξαίμην. Πολυξένου ποτὲ τοῦ σοφιστοῦ εἰσελθόντος πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ θεασαμένου γυναῖκάς τε καὶ πολυτελῆ ὀψωνίαν, ἔπειτα αἰτιασαμένου, μικρὸν διαλιπών, δύνασαι, ἔφη, καὶ σὺ σήμερον μεθʼ ἡμῶν γενέσθα …

All forms of γυνή (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.