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εἴδεα (eidea)

εἴδεα is an Ancient Greek form of εἶδος, meaning “form, appearance, kind”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1193: εἴδεα καὶ μορφάς, ἐν δέ σφισιν Οἰάγροιο

New Testament, Matthew 28.3: ἦν δὲ ἡ εἰδέα αὐτοῦ ὡς ἀστραπὴ καὶ τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ λευκὸν ὡς χιών.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.1·3: … χρὸν γὰρ τὸ γῆρας· ἀλλʼ ἐς ὑγροῦ πλῆθος ἔασι ἀναίτιοι. τοῖσδε οὖν τυμπανίης ξυνήθης. ἅπαντα μὲν οὖν πονηρὰ τὰ εἴδεά ἐστι· ὕδρωψ γὰρ πάντων τῶν νοσημάτων κακόν·

All forms of εἶδος (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.