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πικρά (pikra)

πικρά is an Ancient Greek form of πικρός, meaning “bitter, sharp”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 23.5: χερσὶ κρατεῖ, πῶς πικρὰ βέλη ποτικάρδια βάλλει·

Euripides, Hippolytus 1411: ὦ δῶρα πατρὸς σοῦ Ποσειδῶνος πικρά.

Sophocles, Trachiniae 681: πλευρὰν πικρᾷ γλωχῖνι, προυδιδάξατο

All forms of πικρός (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.