φρενός (phrenos)

φρενός is an Ancient Greek form of φρήν, meaning “midriff; heart, mind (pl. φρένες)”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.61: … ἄνδρα ἕκαστον, ὅρα μὴ κρυπτὸν ἔχθος ἔχων κραδί ῃ, φαιδρῷ προσενέπῃ προσώπῳ, γλῶσσα δέ οἱ διχόμυθος ἐκ μελανῆς φρενὸς γεγωνῇ. Γέγραφε δὲ δῆλον μὲν ὅτι τοὺς νόμους, καὶ δημηγορίας καὶ εἰς ἑαυτὸν ὑποθήκας, ἐλεγεῖα, καὶ τὰ περὶ Σα …

Euripides, Medea 677: μάλιστ’, ἐπεί τοι καὶ σοφῆς δεῖται φρενός.

All forms of φρήν (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.