ταχεῖα (tacheia)

ταχεῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ταχύς, meaning “swift, quick”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.4.4: … ατὰ πύλας ἐρήμους γυναικὸς δούσης πέλεκυν λαθόντες καὶ διακόψαντες τὸν μοχλὸν ἐξῆλθον οὐ πολλοί (αἴσθησις γὰρ ταχεῖα ἐπεγένετο), ἄλλοι δὲ ἄλλῃ τῆς πόλεως σποράδες ἀπώλλυντο.

Sophocles, Ajax 1266: φεῦ· τοῦ θανόντος ὡς ταχεῖά τις βροτοῖς

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.67.1: ταχείᾳ δὲ καὶ κατεσπουδασμένῃ παρακλήσει τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων ἀνδρῶν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν συνελθόντων ὥσπερ ἠξίου, λέγει πρὸς …

All forms of ταχύς (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.