ἀγκύρας (ankyras)

ἀγκύρας is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγκυρα, meaning “anchor”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 1071: καὶ μὴν ἐάνπερ ναῦν ἐπʼ ἀγκύρας λάβω,

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.4.1: αὐτὸς δὲ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐπʼ Ἀγκύρας τῆς Γαλατικῆς ἐστέλλετο· κἀκεῖ αὐτῷ πρεσβεία ἀφικνεῖται Παφλαγόνων, τό τε ἔθνος ἐνδιδόντων καὶ ἐς ὁμολογίαν ξυμβαινόντων· ἐς δὲ τὴν χώραν ξὺν τῇ δυνάμει μὴ ἐσβαλεῖν ἐδέοντο.

All forms of ἄγκυρα (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.