τάλαινα (talaina)

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

Found 142 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 250: ἔπαιρε σαυτήν, ὦ τάλαινα, μὴ προδῷς·

Euripides, Heracleidae 433: οἴμοι· τί δῆτʼ ἔτερψας ὦ τάλαινά με

Euripides, Andromache 292: ταλαίνᾳ

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.