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πιστή (piste)

πιστή is an Ancient Greek form of πιστός, meaning “faithful, trustworthy”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.12.1: τίς οὖν αὕτη ἢ φιλία ἐγίγνετο ἢ ἐλευθερία πιστή, ἐν ᾗ παρὰ γνώμην ἀλλήλους ὑπεδεχόμεθα, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ δεδιότες ἐθεράπευον, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐκείνους ἐ …

Euripides, Hippolytus 267: γύναι γεραιά, βασιλίδος πιστὴ τροφὲ

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 5.5.2: οὐ πιστῇ λύχνον Φλάκκος ἔδωκε Νάπῃ,

All forms of πιστός (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.