δικαίῳ (dikaio)

δικαίῳ is an Ancient Greek form of δίκαιος, meaning “just, right, fair”. It is the dative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of δικαιόω, “deem right; punish”.

Found 183 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76.2: … ατωτέρου κατείργεσθαι, ἄξιοί τε ἅμα νομίζοντες εἶναι καὶ ὑμῖν δοκοῦντες μέχρι οὗ τὰ ξυμφέροντα λογιζόμενοι τῷ δικαίῳ λόγῳ νῦν χρῆσθε, ὃν οὐδείς πω παρατυχὸν ἰσχύι τι κτήσασθαι προθεὶς τοῦ μὴ πλέον ἔχειν ἀπετράπετο.

Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.9.20: … ς ἐσθλῶν ἵμερον ἢ καλῶν καὶ μή τι εἰπῆν γλῶσσʼ ἐκύκα κακόν αἰδώς κέν σε οὐκ εἶχεν ὄμματʼ, ἀλλʼ ἔλεγες περὶ τῶ δικαίω.

All forms of δίκαιος (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.