μακραί (makrai)

μακραί is an Ancient Greek form of μακρός, meaning “long”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.545: τεύχεα· μακραὶ δʼ αἰὲν ἐλευκαίνοντο κέλευθοι,

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.16.1: … νοντο σπονδαὶ τοιαίδε, Λακεδαιμονίους μὲν τὰς ναῦς ἐν αἷς ἐναυμάχησαν καὶ τὰς ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ πάσας, ὅσαι ἦσαν μακραί, παραδοῦναι κομίσαντας ἐς Πύλον Ἀθηναίοις, καὶ ὅπλα μὴ ἐπιφέρειν τῷ τειχίσματι μήτε κατὰ γῆν μήτε κατὰ θάλασσ …

Euripides, Ion 283: Μακραὶ δὲ χῶρός ἐστʼ ἐκεῖ κεκλημένος;

All forms of μακρός (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.