ξόανα (xoana)

ξόανα is an Ancient Greek form of ξόανον, meaning “wooden image, statue”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or adjective.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1284: ἢ ὅταν αὐτόματα ξόανα ῥέῃ ἱδρώοντα

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.6: … έ ἐστι τὸ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἀνάθημα Αὐλίσκου, τέχνη δὲ Ἕρμωνος Τροιζηνίου· τοῦ δὲ Ἕρμωνος τούτου καὶ τὰ τῶν Διοσκούρων ξόανά ἐστι.

All forms of ξόανον (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.