λίμναις (limnais)

λίμναις is an Ancient Greek form of λίμνη, meaning “lake, pool, marsh”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Λίμνη, “Limne — pool of standing water; marshy lake, mere”.

It can also be a form of Λίμναι, “Limnai — a place on the frontiers of Messenia and Laconia, containing a temple of Artemis Limnatis, used…”. It is the dative plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.15.4: … τὸ μέρος τῆς πόλεως μᾶλλον ἵδρυται, τό τε τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου καὶ τὸ Πύθιον καὶ τὸ τῆς Γῆς καὶ τὸ 〈τοῦ〉 ἐν Λίμναις Διονύσου, ᾧ τὰ ἀρχαιότερα Διονύσια [τῇ δωδεκάτῃ] ποιεῖται ἐν μηνὶ Ἀνθεστηριῶνι, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ ἀπ’ Ἀθηναίων Ἴων …

Plutarch, Solon 23.5: ἐπεὶ δὲ πρὸς ὕδωρ οὔτε ποταμοῖς ἐστιν ἀενάοις οὔτε λίμναις τισὶν οὔτʼ ἀφθόνοις πηγαῖς ἡ χώρα διαρκής, ἀλλʼ οἱ πλεῖστοι φρέασι ποιητοῖς ἐχρῶντο, νόμον ἔγραψεν, ὅπου μέν …

All forms of λίμνη (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.