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καρτερά (kartera)

καρτερά is an Ancient Greek form of καρτερός, meaning “strong, mighty”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1291: καρτερὰ λιγνυόεντι πέριξ εἰλυμένα καπνῷ,

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.49.2: ἦν τε ἡ ναυμαχία καρτερά, τῇ μὲν τέχνῃ οὐχ ὁμοίως, πεζομαχίᾳ δὲ τὸ πλέον προσφερὴς οὖσα.

Strabo, Geography 7.fragments.44: … ἐπαφέντα τῷ πεδίῳ κρατῆσαι τῶν ἐναντίων. δείκνυται δὲ καὶ τὸ βασίλειον Διομήδους ἀπὸ συμβεβηκότος καλούμενον Καρτερὰ κώμη διὰ τὴν ἐρυμνότητα. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἀνὰ μέσον λίμνην Ξάνθεια Μαρώνεια καὶ Ἴσμαρος, αἱ τῶν Κικόνων πόλεις· κα …

All forms of καρτερός (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.