τάλαινʼ (talain)

τάλαινʼ is an Ancient Greek form of τάλας, meaning “wretched, unhappy”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 277: αἰαῖ· πανώλης ἡ τάλαιν’ ἀπόλλυμαι.

Euripides, Hecuba 233: κακῶν κάκʼ ἄλλα μείζονʼ ἡ τάλαινʼ ἐγώ.

All forms of τάλας (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.