χόρτον (chorton)

χόρτον is an Ancient Greek form of χόρτος, meaning “farmyard”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 495: θηρῶν ὀρείων χόρτον, οὐχ ἵππων, λέγεις.

Julian, Emperor of Rome, To the Cynic Heracleios 9: … έγονε μαθεῖν ἐξ ἐκείνων αὐτά. Μνημοσύνης καὶ Ζηνὸς Ὀλυμπίου ἀγλαὰ τέκνα, Μοῦσαι Πιερίδες, κλῦτέ μοι εὐχομένῳ· Χόρτον ἐμῇ συνεχῆ δότε γαστέρι, καὶ δότε χωρίς Δουλοσύνης, ἣ δὴ λιτὸν ἔθηκε βίον. Ὠφέλιμον δὲ φίλοις, μὴ γλυκερὸν τί …

All forms of χόρτος (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.