καινή (kaine)

καινή is an Ancient Greek form of καινός, meaning “new, fresh, strange”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of καινέω, “renew”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 32.3: … υρμένην ταῖς οἰκήσεσιν ἀνήγαγον τὴν πόλιν ὑπὸ σπουδῆς καὶ τάχους, ἐντὸς γὰρ ἐνιαυτοῦ λέγεται καὶ τοῖς τείχεσι καινὴ καὶ ταῖς ἰδιωτικαῖς οἰκοδομαῖς ἀναστῆναι πάλιν.

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 179: ἐγὼ δὲ καινῇ ξυμφορᾷ πεπληγμένος

New Testament, Mark 1.27: ὥστε συνζητεῖν αὐτοὺς λέγοντας Τί ἐστιν τοῦτο; διδαχὴ καινή· κατʼ ἐξουσίαν καὶ τοῖς πνεύμασι τοῖς ἀκαθάρτοις ἐπιτάσσει, καὶ ὑπακούουσιν αὐτῷ.

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.