χρηστήν (chresten)

χρηστήν is an Ancient Greek form of χρηστός, meaning “useful, good”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 750: γυναῖκα χρηστὴν κἀγαθήν, ἢ μὴ τρέφειν.

Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes 27: λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὴν Πύθεω τοῦ κατὰ Ξέρξην γυναῖκα σοφὴν γενέσθαι καὶ χρηστήν. αὐτὸς μὲν γὰρ ὁ Πύθης ὡς ἔοικε χρυσείοις ἐντυχὼν μετάλλοις καὶ ἀγαπήσας τὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν πλοῦτον οὐ μετρίως ἀλλʼ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 7.732.3: γήρᾳ ἔτʼ ἄρτια πάντα φέρων· χρήστην δὲ δίκαιον

All forms of χρηστός (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.