νεανίας (neanias)

νεανίας is an Ancient Greek form of νεανίης, meaning “young man”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 138 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.110: … οἱ δὲ τὴν αἰτίαν εἰπεῖν τοῦ λοιμοῦ τὸ Κυλώνειον ἄγος σημαίνειν τε τὴν ἀπαλλαγήν· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀποθανεῖν δύο νεανίας, Κρατῖνον καὶ Κτησίβιον, καὶ λυθῆναι τὴν συμφοράν.

Aesop, Fables 339: … λέγειν ποτὲ κωλυόμενος ὑπὸ Αθηναίων ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ, βραχὺ ἔφη βούλεσθαι πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰπεῖν. Τῶν δὲ σιωπησάντων, “Νεανίας “ εἶπε “θέρους ὥρᾳ ἐμισθώσατο ἐξ ἄστεος ὄνον Μεγάραδε. Μεσούσης δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ σφοδρῶς φλέγοντος τοῦ ἡλίου …

All forms of νεανίης (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.