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κεῖνα (keina)

κεῖνα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκεῖνος, meaning “that, that one (there)”.

It can also be a form of κεῖνος, “that, that one (Ionic/Epic for ἐκεῖνος)”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.920: νῆσος ὁμῶς κεχάροιτο καὶ οἳ λάχον ὄργια κεῖνα

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 37: … ενος ἀφίκετο πρὸς τὸν Εὐρυβιάδην πάλιν αὐταῖς λέξεσι γέγραφεν ἐνταῦθα δὲ Θεμιστοκλῆς παριζόμενὸς οἱ καταλέγει κεῖνά τε πάντα ἃ ἤκουσε Μνησιφίλου ἑωυτοῦ ποιεύμενος, καὶ ἄλλα προστιθείς. ὁρᾷς ὅτι κακοηθείας προστρίβεται τἀνδρὶ …

Sophocles, Electra 201: ὦ πασᾶν κείνα πλέον ἁμέρα

All forms of ἐκεῖνος (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.