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δεινάς (deinas)

δεινάς is an Ancient Greek form of δεινός, meaning “terrible, fearful; clever, formidable”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 1135: δεινὰς δ’ ἂν εἶδες πυρρίχας φρουρουμένου

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 868: ὦ μελέα δεινᾶς τόλμας. δείνʼ ἔτλαν

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 877: δεινάς, νοσῶν τε καὶ πρὸς ἠτιμασμένος.

All forms of δεινός (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.