κήρυκα (keryka)

κήρυκα is an Ancient Greek form of κῆρυξ, meaning “herald”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 193 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.641: Αἰθαλίδην κήρυκα θοόν, τῷπέρ τε μέλεσθαι

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.29.3: … κτίῳ τῆς Ἀνακτορίας γῆς, οὗ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνός ἐστιν, ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι τοῦ Ἀμπρακικοῦ κόλπου, οἱ Κερκυραῖοι κήρυκά τε προύπεμψαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἀκατίῳ ἀπεροῦντα μὴ πλεῖν ἐπὶ σφᾶς καὶ τὰς ναῦς ἅμα ἐπλήρουν, ζεύξαντές τε τὰς παλαιὰ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume V 14.82.3: φράσσασθαι ξύλινόν τε λόχον κήρυκὰ τʼ ἐρυθρόν.

All forms of κῆρυξ (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.