τέσσαρα (tessara)

τέσσαρα is an Ancient Greek form of τέσσαρες, meaning “four”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 171 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.2.1: τέσσαρα μὲν γὰρ καὶ δέκα ἔτη ἐνέμειναν αἱ τριακοντούτεις σπονδαὶ αἳ ἐγένοντο μετ’ Εὐβοίας ἅλωσιν· τῷ δὲ πέμπτῳ καὶ δε …

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 44·2: … ὶ ῥέοντες μέρει τῷ δʼ ἀπὸ γενέσεως ἄχρι τελευτῆς οἱ αὐτοὶ διαμένοντες. ἁπλούστερον δὲ ποιοῦμαι τὸν λόγον ἐπεὶ τέσσαρά γε ποιοῦσιν ὑποκείμενα· περὶ ἕκαστον, μᾶλλον δὲ τέσσαρʼ ἕκαστον ἡμῶν· ἀρκεῖ δὲ καὶ τὰ δύο πρὸς τὴν ἀτοπίαν, ε …

All forms of τέσσαρες (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.