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δάφνης (daphnes)

δάφνης is an Ancient Greek form of δάφνη, meaning “laurel”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.166: δὴ τότε λυσάμενοι νεάτης ἐκ πείσματα δάφνης,

Plutarch, Lucullus 21.1: … αι φράσας πολλὰ τοῖς βαρβάροις ἀγωγοῖς, καὶ διʼ ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων τὸν Εὐφράτην περάσας εἷς Ἀντιόχειαν ἧκε τὴν ἐπὶ Δάφνης.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo 2.6: … έος, μήλων τοῦ χυλοῦ, ἑλίκων τῆς ἀμπέλου, οἰνάνθης τῆς ὡραίης, ἢ τοῦ σὺν τῇδε λίπαος· πυρίη, σπόγγοισι καρποῦ δαφνῆς ἑψήματος, σχίνου, γλήχωνος, ἴριδος. ἐπὴν δὲ τουτέοισι πρηο̈́νῃς, σικύην προσβάλλειν μέζονα ὡς ἀμφιλαβεῖν πάντ …

All forms of δάφνη (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.