εὐθεῖαν (eutheian)

εὐθεῖαν is an Ancient Greek form of εὐθύς, meaning “straight; at once”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 167 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.10.6: … ατὰ τὰς ἐπὶ τὸ σταύρωμα πύλας καὶ τὰς πρώτας τοῦ μακροῦ τείχους τότε ὄντος ἐξελθὼν ἔθει δρόμῳ τὴν ὁδὸν ταύτην εὐθεῖαν, ᾗπερ νῦν κατὰ τὸ καρτερώτατον τοῦ χωρίου ἰόντι τροπαῖον ἕστηκε, καὶ προσβαλὼν τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις πεφοβημένοις τε …

New Testament, Acts 9.11: ὁ δὲ κύριος πρὸς αὐτόν Ἀνάστα πορεύθητι ἐπὶ τὴν ῥύμην τὴν καλουμένην Εὐθεῖαν καὶ ζήτησον ἐν οἰκίᾳ Ἰούδα Σαῦλον ὀνόματι Ταρσέα, ἰδοὺ γὰρ προσεύχεται,

Strabo, Geography 2.1.23: … ευρὰν ὁ Περσικὸς ἐμπίπτει κόλπος, ὅπερ καὶ αὐτός φησιν, ὥστʼ ἠνάγκασται τὴν ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος λαβεῖν γραμμὴν ὡς ἂν εὐθεῖάν τινα διὰ Σούσων καὶ Περσεπόλεως μέχρι τῶν ὅρων τῆς Καρμανίας καὶ τῆς Περσίδος, ᾗ δυνατὸς ἦν εὑρεῖν μεμετρημέν …

All forms of εὐθύς (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.