καινοῖς (kainois)

καινοῖς is an Ancient Greek form of καινός, meaning “new, fresh, strange”.

It can also be a form of καινέω, “renew”. It is the 2nd person singular present active optative.

It can also be a form of καινόω, “make new, change; inventing new”.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 71.20: ἀπαγγείλαντος δέ τινος ὡς Ἀθηναῖοι στράτευμα καινοῖς κεκοσμημένον ὅπλοις εἰς Πελοπόννησον ἀπεστάλκασι, τί οὖν εἶπεν Ἀντιγενίδας στένει καινοὺς Τέλληνος αὐλοὺς ἔχοντος; ἦν δὲ αὐλητὴς ὁ μὲν Τέλλης κάκιστος, ὁ δὲ Ἀντιγενίδας κάλλιστος.

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.