μαλθακά (malthaka)

μαλθακά is an Ancient Greek form of μαλθακός, meaning “soft, gentle; weak”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hippolytus 1226: μεταστρέφουσαι. κεἰ μὲν ἐς τὰ μαλθακὰ

Pindar, Pythian 4.137: μαλθακᾷ φωνᾷ ποτιστάζων ὄαρον

Arrian, Cynegeticus 5.7: ὦτα δὲ μεγάλα ἔστω ταῖς κυσὶν καὶ μαλθακά, ὥστε ὑπὸ μεγέθους καὶ μαλθακότητος ἐπικεκλασμένα φαίνεσθαι· οὕτως ἂν εἴη κράτιστα. οὐ μέντοι ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ ὀρθὰ εἴη, οὐ πονηρόν, εἰ μὴ σμικρά τε εἴη καὶ σκληρά.

All forms of μαλθακός (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.