καιρόν (kairon)

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

Found 1,496 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.382: βήσαθʼ, ἵνʼ ὀτρύνειε νέους κατὰ καιρὸν ἐρύσσαι·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.4.65: … όπον ἐπὶ παρθένου πενιχρᾶς· βαρὺ γὰρ φορτίον πατρὶ κόρη διὰ σπάνιν προικὸς ἐκτρέχουσα τὸν ἀκμαῖον τῆς ἡλικίας καιρόν. διὸ δὴ καί φασιν Ἀντίγονον ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦτο εἰπεῖν, ὡς οὐκ ἦν ὥσπερ μήλου τὴν εὐωδίαν καὶ χάριν ἄλλοθί που με …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.14.9: … τερον Καιροῦ. Ἴωνι δὲ οἶδα τῷ Χίῳ καὶ ὕμνον πεποιημένον Καιροῦ· γενεαλογεῖ δὲ ἐν τῷ ὕμνῳ νεώτατον παίδων Διὸς Καιρὸν εἶναι. πλησίον δὲ τοῦ Σικυωνίων θησαυροῦ ἤτοι Κουρήτων ἢ τοῦ Ἀλκμήνης ἐστὶν Ἡρακλέους· λέγεται γὰρ καὶ ἀμφότε …

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.