περαίαν (peraian)

περαίαν is an Ancient Greek form of πέραιος, meaning “on the further side; bank”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of περαίας, “mullet; found beyond”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes 3·2: … Ἀριστόδημος ἀπεχώρησε· τῇ δʼ ὑστεραίᾳ πληρώσας τριήρη συνήρπασε τὸ μειράκιον, καὶ ἐξ Ὠρεοῦ διαπλεύσας εἰς τὴν περαίαν ἐπεχείρει ὑβρίσαι, οὐ συγχωροῦντα δʼ αὐτὸν ἀπέσφαξεν. ἐπανελθὼν δʼ εἰς τὴν Ὠρεὸν εὐωχεῖτο. ἐγὼ δʼ ἔφη τὸ πραχ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.255: Πάντα δὲ τὰ τῶν Ἑβραίων εἰς ἀκοσμίαν καὶ ὕβριν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τῶν νόμων ὑπεφέρετο, καὶ καταφρονήσαντες αὐτῶν Ἀμμανῖται καὶ Παλαιστῖνοι στρατῷ μεγάλῳ διήρπαζον τὴν χώραν καὶ τὴν Περαίαν ἅπασαν κατασχόντες καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν λοιπῶν ἤδη κτῆσιν διαβαίνειν ἐτόλμων.

All forms of πέραιος (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.