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πετρῶν (petron)

πετρῶν is an Ancient Greek form of πέτρα, meaning “rock, cliff”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of πέτρος, “stone”.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 448: σφάξαι μενοινᾷς, ἢ πετρῶν ὦσαι κάτω.

Euripides, Orestes 59: παῖδες τεθνᾶσιν, ἐς πέτρων ἔλθῃ βολάς,

Plutarch, Caesar 16.4: … νώμην αἰτούμενος ἐπὶ τῷ προέσθαι τὸν θυρεόν. ἐν δὲ Λιβύῃ ναῦν ἑλόντες οἱ περὶ Σκηπίωνα Καίσαρος, ἐν ᾗ Γράνιος Πέτρων ἐπέπλει ταμίας ἀποδεδειγμένος, τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἐποιοῦντο λείαν, τῷ δὲ ταμίᾳ διδόναι τὴν σωτηρίαν ἔφασαν, ὁ δὲ …

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.