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μοῖραν (moiran)

μοῖραν is an Ancient Greek form of μοῖρα, meaning “share, portion; fate”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 478 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.299: τῶν μοῖραν κατὰ θυμὸν ἀνιάζουσά περ ἔμπης

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.140: ἐκ Μοιρᾶν, χὡ Δάφνις ἔβα ῥόον. ἔκλυσε δίνα

Plutarch, Romulus 21.2: τὴν δὲ Καρμένταν οἴονταί τινες Μοῖραν εἶναι κυρίαν ἀνθρώπων γενέσεως· διὸ καὶ τιμῶσιν αὐτὴν αἱ μητέρες· οἱ δὲ τὴν [τοῦ] Εὐάνδρου τοῦ Ἀρκάδος γυναῖκ …

All forms of μοῖρα (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.