οἰκτρά (oiktra)

οἰκτρά is an Ancient Greek form of οἰκτρός, meaning “pitiable”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 421: ᾤκτιρ’ ἀκούσασ’· οἰκτρὰ γὰρ τὰ δυστυχῆ

Euripides, Heracles 304: πενίᾳ σὺν οἰκτρᾷ περιβαλεῖν σωτηρίαν·

Demosthenes, On the Crown 41: … αὶ ὁ δεῦρʼ ἀπαγγείλας τὰ ψευδῆ καὶ φενακίσας ὑμᾶς, οὗτός ἐσθʼ ὁ τὰ Θηβαίων ὀδυρόμενος νῦν πάθη καὶ διεξιὼν ὡς οἰκτρά, καὶ τούτων καὶ τῶν ἐν Φωκεῦσι κακῶν καὶ ὅσʼ ἄλλα πεπόνθασιν οἱ Ἕλληνες ἁπάντων αὐτὸς ὢν αἴτιος. δῆλον γὰρ ὅτ …

All forms of οἰκτρός (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.