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χθονί (chthoni)

χθονί is an Ancient Greek form of χθών, meaning “earth, ground, land”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 188 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.994: τόξον ἐπασσυτέρους πέλασε χθονί· τοὶ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ

Sophocles, Electra 111: ὦ χθόνιʼ Ἑρμῆ καὶ πότνιʼ Ἀρὰ

All forms of χθών (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.