τέρατα (terata)

τέρατα is an Ancient Greek form of τέρας, meaning “portent, sign, wonder”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 8.9.2·2: … ίᾳ, τῆς σελήνης ἐκτρεπομένης καὶ τὰς ἀνατολὰς οὐχ ὅθεν εἴωθε ποιουμένης· οἱ δὲ καινὰ νοσήματα τὴν φύσιν ὥσπερ τέρατα γεννᾶν ἀξιοῦσι, μήτε πιθανὴν μήτʼ ἀπίθανον αἰτίαν τῆς ἐξαλλαγῆς πλάσσοντες, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἄγαν καὶ τὸ μᾶλλον ἐνίων …

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 1.9.83: … ῖς καὶ ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατὰ πλῆθος ἐνέπιπτε περὶ ὅλην τὴν Ἰταλίαν, καὶ μαντευμάτων παλαιῶν ἐπιφοβωτέρων ἐμνημόνευον, τέρατά τε πολλὰ ἐγίνοντο, καὶ ἡμίονος ἔτεκε, καὶ γυνὴ κύουσα ἔχιν ἀντὶ βρέφους ἐξέδωκε, τήν τε γῆν ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ μέγα ἔ …

All forms of τέρας (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.