παλαιάν (palaian)

παλαιάν is an Ancient Greek form of παλαιός, meaning “old, ancient”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.15.6: καλεῖται δὲ διὰ τὴν παλαιὰν ταύτῃ κατοίκησιν καὶ ἡ ἀκρόπολις μέχρι τοῦδε ἔτι ὑπ᾽ Ἀθηναίων πόλις.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 316: περιχορεύουσα τέρψιν παλαιᾶν λάβω

Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini 18.3: … ένδε ἐς ἄκραν, ἵναπερ σκέπη ἐστὶν ἀνέμου θρᾳσκίου καὶ βορρᾶ, ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν. ἐνθένδε ἐς τὴν καλουμένην Παλαιὰν Λαζικὴν

All forms of παλαιός (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.