πύλαι (pylai)

πύλαι is an Ancient Greek form of πύλη, meaning “gate, gates”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.630: ἐκ μυχάτης, ἵνα τʼ εἰσὶ πύλαι καὶ ἐδέθλια Νυκτός,

Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 18: … ν ἐποιεῖσθε, ἃ οὗτος ἐδημηγόρησε καὶ εἰς ἃ προήχασι τὴν πόλιν, καὶ περὶ τῶν ὑπολοίπων (ταῦτα δʼ ἦν Φωκεῖς καὶ Πύλαι) μὴ προέσθαι συνεβούλευον, μηδὲ ταὐτὰ παθεῖν, μηδʼ ἀναρτωμένους ἐλπίσιν ἐξ ἐλπίδων καὶ ὑποσχέσεσιν εἰς τοὔσχα …

All forms of πύλη (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.