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ἀγκῶνος (ankonos)

ἀγκῶνος is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγκών, meaning “elbow”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1583: ἀγκῶνος τέτατʼ ἰθὺς ἀπὸ προύχοντος ἰοῦσιν.

Lucian of Samosata, Zeuxis 4: … πῳ χαμαὶ κειμένη, καὶ ἀποτέτανται εἰς τοὐπίσω οἱ πόδες· τὸ δὲ γυναικεῖον ὅσον αὐτῆς ἠρέμα ἐπεγήγερται καὶ ἐπ' ἀγκῶνός ἐστιν, οἱ δὲ πόδες οἱ ἔμπροσθεν οὐκέτι καὶ οὗτοι ἀποτάδην, οἷον ἐπὶ πλευρὰν κειμένης, ἀλλ’ ὁ μὲν ὀκλάζοντι ἔο …

Strabo, Geography 5.2.10: … εμόνων. πρότερον μέν γε τὸν Αἶσιν ἐποιοῦντο ὅριον, πάλιν δὲ τὸν Ῥουβίκωνα ποταμόν. ἔστι δʼ ὁ μὲν Αἶσις μεταξὺ Ἀγκῶνος καὶ Σήνας, ὁ δὲ Ῥουβίκων μεταξὺ Ἀριμίνου καὶ Ῥαουέννης, ἄμφω δʼ ἐκπίπτουσιν εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν. νυνὶ δὲ συμπάσης …

All forms of ἀγκών (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.