καινάς (kainas)

καινάς is an Ancient Greek form of καινός, meaning “new, fresh, strange”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 10.35: σχῆμα δʼ ἐγὼ καὶ καινὰς ἐπʼ ἀμφοτέροισιν ἀμύκλας.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1126: αὐτὸς δʼ ἀνῆκται Νεοπτόλεμος, καινάς τινας

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.84: Καϊνᾶς δὲ βιοὺς δέκα καὶ ἐνακόσια Μαλαῆλον υἱὸν ἔσχεν ἔτει γενόμενον ἑβδομηκοστῷ καὶ ἑκατοστῷ. οὗτος ὁ Μαλαῆλος ζήσας πέντε καὶ ἐνενήκοντα καὶ ὀκτακόσια ἔτη ἐτελεύτησεν Ἰάρεδον καταλιπὼν υἱόν, ὃν ἔτος πέμπτον ἑξηκοστὸν καὶ ἑκατοστὸν γενόμενος ἐγέννησε.

All forms of καινός (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.