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πυκνόν (pyknon)

πυκνόν is an Ancient Greek form of πυκνός, meaning “thick, close, dense; wise”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.35: … ὅλων ἐπιβλέψει τὸν τύπον τῆς ὅλης πραγματείας τὸν κατεστοιχειωμένον δεῖ μνημονεύειν· τῆς γὰρ ἀθρόας ἐπιβολῆς πυκνὸν δεόμεθα, τῆς δὲ κατὰ μέρος οὐχ ὁμοίως.

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 4: … νοῦσα ποιεῖ ἐκφανῆ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος. ὑπολαβὼν δʼ ὁ Θέων, τί γάρ εἶπεν ὦ ξένε, κωλύει ταὐτὸν εἶναι καὶ λεπτὸν καὶ πυκνόν, ὥσπερ τὰ σηρικὰ καὶ τὰ βύσσινα τῶν ὑφασμάτων, ἐφʼ ὧν καὶ Ὅμηρος εἶπε καιροσέων δʼ ὀθονῶν ἀπολείβεται ὑγρὸν ἔ …

All forms of πυκνός (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.