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σμικρᾶς (smikras)

σμικρᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of μικρός, meaning “small, little”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.81.2: … τῆς φυγῆς ἐπῃτιάσατο καὶ ἀνωλοφύρατο ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης, καὶ περὶ τῶν πολιτικῶν πολλὰ εἰπὼν ἐς ἐλπίδας τε αὐτοὺς οὐ σμικρὰς τῶν μελλόντων καθίστη, καὶ ὑπερβάλλων ἐμεγάλυνε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν παρὰ τῷ Τισσαφέρνει, ἵνα οἵ τε οἴκοι τὴν ὀ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 30.32: σμίκρας δεύμενον αὔρας ὀνέμων ᾇ κε θέλῃ φόρη.

Euripides, Hippolytus 1163: δέδορκε μέντοι φῶς ἐπὶ σμικρᾶς ῥοπῆς.

All forms of μικρός (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.