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οἰκτρόν (oiktron)

οἰκτρόν is an Ancient Greek form of οἰκτρός, meaning “pitiable”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 96: ὄσσων ἐλαύνουσʼ οἰκτρὸν ἐς γαῖαν δάκρυ,

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 228: οἰκτρόν τʼ ἐκβαλλόντων δάκρυον.

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.