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πέτραν (petran)

πέτραν is an Ancient Greek form of πέτρα, meaning “rock, cliff”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 193 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.35.2: … ὐτὸ ἀπήντων. τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίᾳ ἀναβιβασάμενοι παρέπλεον, ἴσχοντες πρὸς ταῖς πόλεσι πλὴν Λοκρῶν, ἕως ἀφίκοντο ἐπὶ Πέτραν τῆς Ῥηγίνης.

Euripides, Cyclops 20: ἐξέβαλεν ἡμᾶς τήνδ’ ἐς Αἰτναίαν πέτραν,

Euripides, Medea 1264: πετρᾶν ἀξενωτάταν ἐσβολάν;

All forms of πέτρα (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.