λίνα (lina)

λίνα is an Ancient Greek form of λίνον, meaning “flax, linen thread; net”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of λίνεος, “of linen”. It is the nominative dual feminine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.565: κὰδ δʼ αὐτοῦ λίνα χεῦαν, ἐπʼ ἠλακάτην ἐρύσαντες.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.19: … ῖς τε καὶ ὠμοῖς, τοῖς δὲ θαλαττίοις σπανίως. στολὴ δʼ αὐτῷ λευκή, καθαρά, καὶ στρώματα λευκὰ ἐξ ἐρίων· τὰ γὰρ λινᾶ οὔπω εἰς ἐκείνους ἀφῖκτο τοὺς τόπους. οὐδέποτʼ ἐγνώσθη οὔτε διαχωρῶν οὔτε ἀφροδισιάζων οὔτε μεθυσθείς.

All forms of λίνον (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.