καιρούς (kairous)

καιρούς is an Ancient Greek form of καιρός, meaning “right time, opportunity”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 388 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.28: … ῖς, καὶ τὠφθαλμὼ παραβάλλεις, κἀνυπόδητος κακὰ πόλλʼ ἀνέχει, κἀν ἡμῖν σεμνοπροσωπεῖς. καίτοι ἐνίοτε πρὸς τοὺς καιροὺς ἁρμοττόμενος καὶ λαμπρὰ ἠμπίσχετο· καθάπερ ἐν τῷ Πλάτωνος συμποσίῳ παρʼ Ἀγάθωνα βαδίζων.

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 48.1: Λεωτυχίδας ὁ πρῶτος, λέγοντός τινος ὡς ἔστιν εὐμετάβολος, διὰ τοὺς καιρούς ἔφη οὐχ ὡς ὑμεῖς διὰ τὴν αὑτῶν κακίαν.

All forms of καιρός (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.