ξεῖνʼ (xein)

ξεῖνʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ξένος, meaning “guest-friend, host; stranger, foreigner”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.1.17: … εὸν μόρον, ἐς δʼ ἐμὲ δάκρυ ἤγαγεν, ἐμνήσθην δʼ ὁσσάκις ἀμφότεροι ἥλιον ἐν λέσχῃ κατεδύσαμεν. ἀλλὰ σὺ μέν που, ξεῖνʼ Ἁλικαρνασσεῦ, τετράπαλαι σποδιή, αἱ δὲ τεαὶ ζώουσιν ἀηδόνες, ᾗσιν ὁ πάντων ἁρπάκτης Ἀΐδης οὐκ ἐπὶ χεῖρα βαλεῖ …

Euripides, Heracleidae 355: ὦ ξεῖν’ Ἀργόθεν ἐλθών,

Lucian of Samosata, Soleocista 11: … αὶ τῷ ποτ’ ἂν εἴη διαφέρον; Τῷ τὸ μὲν πρὸς τὸν ἑστῶτα λέγεσθαι τὸ κάθισον, τὸ δὲ πρὸς τὸν καθεζόμενον· ἧσ’, ὦ ξεῖν̓, ἡμεῖς δὲ καὶ ἄλλοθι δήομεν ἕδρην, ἀντὶ τοῦ μένε καθεζόμενος. πάλιν οὖν εἰρήσθω ὅτι τὸ ταῦτα παραλλάττειν ἁμα …

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.