νίκης (nikes)

νίκης is an Ancient Greek form of νίκη, meaning “victory”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 417 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1772: κοῦροι Μυρμιδόνων νίκης πέρι δηριόωνται.

Plutarch, Romulus 24.3: … καὶ χαλκοῦν ἐκόμισε τέθριππον ἐκ Καμερίας· τοῦτο δὲ ἀνέστησεν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Ἡφαίστου, ποιησάμενος ἑαυτὸν ὑπὸ Νίκης στεφανούμενον.

Aesop, Fables 21b: … ς ἀρθεὶς ἀνέκραγε μέγιστον, τὴν νίκην κατάδηλον ἐξ ᾠδῆς ἐργαζόμενος. Καὶ καταπτὰς ἀετὸς τοῦτον ἁρπάζει λαβών. Νίκῃς ἀσφάλεια μετριότης φρονήματος.

All forms of νίκη (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.