σιδηρᾶ (sidera)

σιδηρᾶ is an Ancient Greek form of σιδήρεος, meaning “of iron”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of σίδηρον, “iron”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.25.4: προσπλεύσαντες δὲ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Ῥηγῖνοι ὁρῶντες τὰς ναῦς κενὰς ἐνέβαλον, καὶ χειρὶ σιδηρᾷ ἐπιβληθείσῃ μίαν ναῦν αὐτοὶ ἀπώλεσαν τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀποκολυμβησάντων.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 26: σφυρῶν σιδηρᾶ κέντρα διαπείρας μέσον·

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.12: … νέει μὲν γὰρ θρὶξ, οὐδʼ ἂν τέμνῃ τις ἢ θλίβῃ· ἢν δὲ ἐξ ἑωυτέων πονῇ, οὐδὲ ἕτερον ἀλγέει τοῦδε δυνατώτερον, οὐ σιδηρὰ σφίγγοντα, οὐ δεσμὰ, οὐ τιτρῶσκον ξίφος, οὐ καῖον πῦρ. καὶ γὰρ καὶ ταῦτα ἐπαναιροῦνται ὡς μεζόνων πόνων ἄκεα· …

All forms of σιδήρεος (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.