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νυκτός (nyktos)

νυκτός is an Ancient Greek form of νύξ, meaning “night”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 1,420 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1016: νυκτὸς ἔτι ῥιπὴ μένεν ἔμπεδον, ἀλλὰ θύελλαι

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.166: ἀστέρες, εὐκήλοιο κατʼ ἄντυγα Νυκτὸς ὀπαδοί.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 141A.1: . . . ὀφθάλμοις δὲ μέλαις χύτο νύκτος ἄωρος.

All forms of νύξ (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.