μαλακόν (malakon)

μαλακόν is an Ancient Greek form of μαλακός, meaning “soft, gentle”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 5.98: ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ ἐς χλαῖναν μαλακὸν πόκον, ὁππόκα πέξω

Plutarch, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus Tiberius.2.5: … ἑστὼς τοῦ Γαΐου λέγοντος, ὁπηνίκα τραχυνόμενον αἴσθοιτο τῇ φωνῇ καὶ παραρρηγνύμενον διʼ ὀργήν, ἐνεδίδου τόνον μαλακόν, ᾧ τὸ σφοδρὸν εὐθὺς ἐκεῖνος ἅμα τοῦ πάθους καὶ τῆς φωνῆς ἀνιεὶς ἐπραΰνετο καὶ παρεῖχεν ἑαυτὸν εὐανάκλητον.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 114.3: πόας τέρεν ἄνθος μάλακον μάτεισαι.

All forms of μαλακός (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.