δέρας (deras)

δέρας is an Ancient Greek form of δειρή, meaning “neck”.

It can also be a form of δέρος, “skin, hide, fleece”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of Δέραι, “Derai — a place in Messenia, where a battle was fought between the Messenians and Lacedaemonians in the…”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 5: ἀνδρῶν ἀρίστων, οἳ τὸ πάγχρυσον δέρας

Pausanias, Description of Greece 4.15.7: ἐνιαυτῷ δὲ ὕστερον τοῦ περὶ τὰς Δέρας ἀγῶνος, ἡκόντων ἀμφοτέροις καὶ τῶν συμμάχων, παρεσκευάζοντο ὡς μάχην συνάψοντες ἐπὶ τῷ καλουμένῳ Κάπρου σήματ …

All forms of δειρή (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.