καινῶν (kainon)

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

It can also be a form of καίνω, “kill”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.153: [] Ἔνθα μὴ καινῶν γενομένων τῶν περιεστώτων πραγμάτων ἀνεφάνη μὴ ἁρμόττοντα εἰς τὴν πρόληψιν τὰ νομισθέντα δίκαια ἐπʼ αὐτῶν τῶν …

Plutarch, Themistocles 21.3: … σόν, λαβὼν δὲ τρίʼ ἀργυρίου τάλαντʼ ἔβα πλέων εἰς ὄλεθρον, τοὺς μὲν κατάγων ἀδίκως, τοὺς δʼ ἐκδιώκων, τοὺς δὲ καίνων, ἀργυρίων ὑπόπλεως, Ἰσθμοῖ δʼ ἐπανδόκευε γελοίως ψυχρὰ κρέα παρέχων· οἱ δʼ ἤσθιον κηὔχοντο μὴ ὥραν Θεμιστοκλε …

Xenophon, On Hunting 7.5: … ν, Ῥώμη, Ἀνθεύς, Ἥβα, Γηθεύς, Χαρά, Λεύσων, Αὐγώ, Πολεύς, Βία, Στίχων, Σπουδή, Βρύας, Οἰνάς, Στέρρος, Κραύγη, Καίνων, Τύρβας, Σθένων, Αἰθήρ, Ἀκτίς, Αἰχμή, Νόης, Γνώμη, Στίβων, Ὁρμή.

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.