πρώτων (proton)

πρώτων is an Ancient Greek form of πρῶτος, meaning “first”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of πρότερος, “earlier, former; before”.

Found 325 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8.1: … ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις οὐκ ἀκουσίως ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας ἥπτετο τοῦ πολέμου, ἥ τε ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς ἅπασα μετέωρος ἦν ξυνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.45: Πρὸς τοὺς ὁρισμοὺς α′. Περὶ ὀδμῶν α′. Περὶ οἴνου καὶ ἐλαίου. Πρώτων προτάσεων α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ ς′ ζ′ η′ θ′ ι′ ια′ ιβ′ ιγ′ ιδ′ ιε′ ις′ ιζ′ ιη′. Νομοθετῶν α′ β′ γ′. Πολιτικῶν α′ β′ …

All forms of πρῶτος (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.