τερπνά (terpna)

τερπνά is an Ancient Greek form of τερπνός, meaning “delightful”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.83: ὦ μακαριστὲ Κομάτα, τύ θην τάδε τερπνὰ πεπόνθεις,

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 12.2: ταῖς ἔμαισι τέρπνα κάλως ἀείσω.

Lucian of Samosata, Anacharsis 6: … ν· οὕτω σοι τὸ πρᾶγμα ἡδύ τε ἅμα καὶ λυσιτελὲς εἶναι δόξει. ἄπαγε, ὦ Σόλων, ὑμῖν ταῦτα γένοιτο τὰ ὠφέλιμα καὶ τερπνά, ἐμὲ δὲ εἴ τις ὑμῶν τοιοῦτό τι διαθείη, εἴσεται ὡς οὐ μάτην παρεζώσμεθα τὸν ἀκινάκην.

All forms of τερπνός (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.