ψυχάν (psychan)

ψυχάν is an Ancient Greek form of ψυχή, meaning “soul, life, spirit”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.16: … καὶ γὰρ τὸ θῆλυ τᾶν ἀλεκτορίδων γένος, αἰ λῇς καταμαθεῖν ἀτενές, οὐ τίκτει τέκνα ζῶντʼ, ἀλλʼ ἐπῴζει καὶ ποιεῖ ψυχὰν ἔχειν. τὸ δὲ σοφὸν ἁ φύσις τόδʼ οἶδεν ὡς ἔχει μόνα· πεπαίδευται γὰρ αὐταύτας ὕπο. καὶ πάλιν· θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 23.55: τὰν ψυχάν, οὐ κλαῦσε νέον φόνον, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ νεκρῷ

All forms of ψυχή (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.