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μεγάλης (megales)

μεγάλης is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 464 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.356: ἄκρην ἐκ μεγάλης προχοὰς ἵησι φάραγγος.

Plutarch, Caius Marius 17.5: περὶ τοῦτον δέ πως τὸν χρόνον ἀφίκετο καὶ Βατάκης ἐκ Πεσσινοῦντος ὁ τῆς Μεγάλης Μητρὸς ἱερεύς, ἀπαγγέλλων ὡς ἡ θεὸς ἐκ τῶν ἀνακτόρων ἐφθέγξατο αὐτῷ νίκην καὶ κράτος πολέμου Ῥωμαίοις ὑπάρχει …

All forms of μέγας (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.