δεξιᾶς (dexias)

δεξιᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of δεξιός, meaning “right, on the right”.

It can also be a form of δεξία, “right hand”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 154 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.81.3: καὶ μέσον μὲν ἔχοντες προσῇσαν Χάονες καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι βάρβαροι, ἐκ δεξιᾶς δ’ αὐτῶν Λευκάδιοι καὶ Ἀνακτόριοι καὶ οἱ μετὰ τούτων, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ Κνῆμος καὶ οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ Ἀμπρακιῶται· διεῖχον δὲ πολὺ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ ἔστιν ὅτε οὐδὲ ἑωρῶντο.

Euripides, Medea 21: βοᾷ μὲν ὅρκους, ἀνακαλεῖ δὲ δεξιάς,

Plutarch, De fraterno amore 17·2: … ήκοντες ἀλλὰ κοινοῦ λόγου μετέχοντες, εἴ ποτε προαχθεῖεν εἰς λοιδορίαν ὑπʼ ὀργῆς, πρὶν ἢ τὸν ἣλιον δῦναι, τὰς δεξιὰς ἐμβαλόντες ἀλλήλοις καὶ ἀσπασάμενοι διελύοντο. καθάπερ γὰρ ἐπὶ βουβῶνι πυρετοῦ γενομένου, δεινὸν οὐθέν ἐστιν, …

All forms of δεξιός (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.