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συγγενῆ (syngene)

συγγενῆ is an Ancient Greek form of συγγενής, meaning “related; kinsman”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 118 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.49: … οσεῖχον αὐτῷ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡδέως κἂν τυραννεῖσθαι ἤθελον πρὸς αὐτοῦ· ὁ δʼ οὐχ εἵλετο, ἀλλὰ καὶ Πεισίστρατον τὸν συγγενῆ, καθά φησι Σωσικράτης, προαισθόμενος τὸ ἐφʼ ἑαυτῷ διεκώλυσεν. ᾅξας γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μετὰ δόρατος καὶ ἀσπ …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.9: … οκεῖ καλῶς ἔχειν, πρόσιθι πρὸς αὐτόν· καὶ πρῶτον μὲν οὕτω ποίει ὅπως ἂν αὐτοὶ ὅ τι ἂν λέγῃ εἰδῆτε· ἐπειδὰν δὲ συγγένῃ αὐτῷ, ἐὰν γνῷς αὐτὸν φίλον βουλόμενον εἶναι, τοῦτο δεῖ μηχανᾶσθαι ὅπως λάθῃ φίλος ὢν ἡμῖν· οὔτε γὰρ ἂν φίλους …

All forms of συγγενής (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.