καινόν (kainon)

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

Found 219 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.51.1: τοῦ δ’ αὐτοῦ χειμῶνος καὶ Χῖοι τὸ τεῖχος περιεῖλον τὸ καινὸν κελευσάντων Ἀθηναίων καὶ ὑποπτευσάντων ἐς αὐτούς τι νεωτεριεῖν, ποιησάμενοι μέντοι πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πίστεις καὶ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 14.11: πάντʼ ἐθέλων κατὰ καιρόν· ὅμως δʼ εἶπον, τί τὸ καινόν.

Strabo, Geography 12.3.31: ἐνταῦθα δὲ καὶ τὸ Καινὸν χωρίον προσαγορευθέν, ἐρυμνὴ καὶ ἀπότομος πέτρα, διέχουσα τῶν Καβείρων ἔλαττον ἢ διακοσίους σταδίους· ἔχει δʼ …

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.