πεῖραν (peiran)

πεῖραν is an Ancient Greek form of πείρω, meaning “pierce, spit”.

It can also be a form of πεῖρα, “trial, attempt, experience”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 380 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.16: ἔμπης δʼ οὔτινα πεῖραν ἀποτρωπᾶσθαι ἔοικεν.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.12.2: διανοοῦνται γάρ, ὡς ἐγὼ πυνθάνομαι, τῷ τε πεζῷ ἅμα τῶν τειχῶν ἡμῶν πειρᾶν καὶ ταῖς ναυσὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν.

Sophocles, Ajax 2: πεῖράν τινʼ ἐχθρῶν ἁρπάσαι θηρώμενον·

All forms of πείρω (conjugation 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.