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λείψανα (leipsana)

λείψανα is an Ancient Greek form of λείψανον, meaning “remnant, remains”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.193: ἑστηώς· τοῖόν οἱ ἀπέπνεε λείψανα δαιτός.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 10.159: … μένων Ἱεροσολύμων φυγόντες διασκεδασθέντες κατὰ τὴν χώραν, ἐπειδὴ τοὺς Βαβυλωνίους ἤκουσαν ἀνακεχωρηκότας καὶ λείψανά τινα καταλελοιπότας ἐν τῇ τῶν Ἱεροσολυμιτῶν γῇ καὶ τοὺς ταύτην ἐργασομένους, συλλεχθέντες πανταχόθεν ἧκον πρὸ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 4.1.33: λείψανὰ τʼ εὐκαρπεῦντα μελιστάκτων ἀπὸ Μουσέων,

All forms of λείψανον (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.