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κοῦφα (koupha)

κοῦφα is an Ancient Greek form of κοῦφος, meaning “light, nimble”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.601: οὐδέ τις ὕδωρ κεῖνο διὰ πτερὰ κοῦφα τανύσσας

Euripides, Alcestis 462a: ψυχᾶς ἐξ Ἅιδα. κούφα σοι

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.5.2·2: … ον ἢ γνώριμον καταγράφειν οἱ δὲ συνεχέστερον κατὰ τρεῖς ἤ τέτταρας ἀναλαμβάνοντες, ὥσπερ πορθμεῖα τὰ συμπόσια κοῦφά τε ποιοῦσι. ποιεῖ δέ τινα τοῦ πολλοῦ τῶν φίλων πλήθους διάκρισιν καὶ ὁ τῆς αἰτίας διηνεκὴς ἐπιλογισμός· ὡς γὰ …

All forms of κοῦφος (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.