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γυναῖκες (gynaikes)

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

Found 788 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.247: ὧς φάσαν ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα κατὰ πτόλιν· αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 28.11: πόλλα δʼ οἷα γύναικες φορέοισʼ ὐδάτινα βράκη.

Euripides, Medea 231: γυναῖκές ἐσμεν ἀθλιώτατον φυτόν·

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.