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τἀναγκαῖα (tanankaia)

τἀναγκαῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναγκαῖος, meaning “necessary; close (kinsman)”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.2: οἱ μέν γε νεωτεροποιοὶ καὶ ἐπινοῆσαι ὀξεῖς καὶ ἐπιτελέσαι ἔργῳ ἃ ἂν γνῶσιν· ὑμεῖς δὲ τὰ ὑπάρχοντά τε σῴζειν καὶ ἐπιγνῶναι μηδὲν καὶ ἔργῳ οὐδὲ τἀναγκαῖα ἐξικέσθαι.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1409: ἐξελογίσω τὰ χρηστὰ τἀναγκαῖά τε.

All forms of ἀναγκαῖος (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.