μακρᾶς (makras)

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

Found 157 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.102.2: μάλιστα δ’ αὐτοὺς ἐπεκαλέσαντο ὅτι τειχομαχεῖν ἐδόκουν δυνατοὶ εἶναι, τοῖς δὲ πολιορκίας μακρᾶς καθεστηκυίας τούτου ἐνδεᾶ ἐφαίνετο· βίᾳ γὰρ ἂν εἷλον τὸ χωρίον.

Euripides, Heracles 1373: μακρὰς διαντλοῦσʼ ἐν δόμοις οἰκουρίας.

Euripides, Ion 13: Μακρὰς καλοῦσι γῆς ἄνακτες Ἀτθίδος.

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.