καίριον (kairion)

καίριον is an Ancient Greek form of καίριος, meaning “timely; vital”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.59: … σι καταφθινύθουσιν ἄρουραν· καὶ πάλιν, ἢν ἐθέλῃσθα, παλίντιτα πνεύματʼ ἐπάξεις· θήσεις δʼ ἐξ ὄμβροιο κελαινοῦ καίριον αὐχμὸν ἀνθρώποις, θήσεις δὲ καὶ ἐξ αὐχμοῖο θερείου ῥεύματα δενδρεόθρεπτα, τά τʼ αἰθέρι ναιήσονται, ἄξεις δʼ ἐ …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 2.3: … ατος νοῦσον ἡγέεσθαι, οὕνεκεν κουρῇ καὶ τέγξι αὐτέων Ῥηίζουσι οἱ φρενιτι κοί. ἀλλὰ γὰρ τῆς καρδίης γειτόνη μα καίριόν ἐστι ὁ στόμαχος, ἐξ οὗπερ ἕλκει ἡ καρδίη οἰκεῖον ἢ ἀξύμφορον. καὶ γὰρ καὶ διὰ πνεύμονος ἕλκει πνεῦμα εἰς ἀναπ …

All forms of καίριος (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.