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κοινοί (koinoi)

κοινοί is an Ancient Greek form of κοινός, meaning “common, shared”.

It can also be a form of κενός, “empty”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of κοινόω, “make common; defile”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.53.2: … α μὴ ἀμφοτέρων ἅμα ἡμαρτήκαμεν· τόν τε γὰρ ἀγῶνα περὶ τῶν δεινοτάτων εἶναι εἰκότως ὑποπτεύομεν καὶ ὑμᾶς μὴ οὐ κοινοὶ ἀποβῆτε, τεκμαιρόμενοι προκατηγορίας τε ἡμῶν οὐ προγεγενημένης ᾗ χρὴ ἀντειπεῖν (ἀλλ’ αὐτοὶ λόγον ᾐτησάμεθα) τ …

Euripides, Cyclops 297: ὧν καὶ σὺ κοινοῖ· γῆς γὰρ Ἑλλάδος μυχοὺς

Euripides, Suppliants 431: κοινοί, κρατεῖ δʼ εἷς τὸν νόμον κεκτημένος

All forms of κοινός (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.