καινήν (kainen)

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

Found 89 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.27: … κωμμάτων. ἵνα καὶ Φιλήμων φησὶν οὕτως ἐν δράματι Φιλοσόφοις· εἷς ἄρτος, ὄψον ἰσχάς, ἐπιπιεῖν ὕδωρ. φιλοσοφίαν καινὴν γὰρ οὗτος φιλοσοφεῖ, πεινῆν διδάσκει καὶ μαθητὰς λαμβάνει· οἱ δὲ Ποσειδίππου. Ἤδη δὲ καὶ εἰς παροιμίαν σχεδὸν …

Plutarch, Camillus 14.2: ἔφη γὰρ ἐν τῇ παρῳχημένῃ νυκτὶ καθʼ ὁδὸν βαδίζων, ἣν Καινὴν ὀνομάζουσι, κληθεὶς ὑπό τινος φθεγξαμένου μεταστραφῆναι, καὶ θεάσασθαι μὲν οὐδένα, φωνῆς δὲ μείζονος ἢ κατʼ ἀ …

Plutarch, Sertorius 9.2: οὐ μὴν ἀπέκαμεν ὁ Σερτώριος, ἀλλὰ τοῖς πρὸς τὸν Ἄσκαλιν διαπολεμοῦσιν ἔγνω βοηθεῖν, ὡς οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ καινήν τινα λαβόντες ἐλπίδων ἀρχὴν καὶ πράξεων ἑτέρων ὑπόθεσιν μὴ διαλυθεῖεν ὑπὸ τῆς ἀπορίας, ἀσμένοις δὲ τοῖς Μαυρο …

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.