κέρατος (keratos)

κέρατος is an Ancient Greek form of κέρας, meaning “horn; wing (of an army)”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 6.2: … ότα τὴν βάσιν, ἀλλʼ ὀξὺν ὥσπερ ὠὸν ἐκ τοῦ παντὸς ἀγγείου συνωλισθηκότα κατὰ τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον ὅθεν ἡ ῥίζα τοῦ κέρατος εἶχε τὴν ἀρχήν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.53.2: … κέρας παραρρηγνυμένης μαθὼν τὸ γινόμενον ἐλάττωμα περὶ τοὺς σφετέρους ʽἔτυχε δὲ τότε μαχόμενος ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ κέρατοσʼ τὰς κρατίστας τῶν ἱππέων ἴλας ἐπιστρέψας καὶ τῶν πεζῶν τοὺς ἀκμαιοτάτους ἀναλαβὼν ἦγε κατὰ νώτου τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σ …

All forms of κέρας (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.