ξένα (xena)

ξένα is an Ancient Greek form of ξένος, meaning “guest-friend, host; stranger, foreigner”.

It can also be a form of ξένη, “foreign woman; foreign land”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or nominative dual feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 433: πέτρας· ἐπὶ δὲ ξένᾳ

Euripides, Bacchae 1034: εὐάζω ξένα μέλεσι βαρβάροις·

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 1.9: ἕλκεα ἐν τοῖσι παρισθμίοισι γίγνεται, τὰ μὲν ξυνήθεα, εὐήθεα καὶ ἀσινέα, τὰ δὲ ξενὰ, λοιμώδεα καὶ κτείνοντα. εὐήθεα μὲν ὁκοῖα καθαρά ἐστι καὶ σμικρὰ καὶ ἀβαθῆ, οὐδὲ ἐπιφλεγμαίνει, καὶ ἀνώδυνα· …

All forms of ξένος (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.