ἀδελφέ (adelphe)

ἀδελφέ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀδελφός, meaning “brother”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ἀδελφεός, “brother”.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1272: —οὐκ οἶδ’, ἄδελφε φίλτατ’· ὀλλύμεσθα γάρ.

Euripides, Orestes 1019: ἀδελφέ, καὶ πάροιθε νερτέρου πυρᾶς.

New Testament, Luke 6.42: πῶς δύνασαι λέγειν τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου Ἀδελφέ, ἄφες ἐκβάλω τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ σου, αὐτὸς τὴν ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ σοῦ δοκὸν οὐ βλέπων; ὑποκριτά, ἔκβαλε πρῶτον τὴν δοκὸν ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σοῦ, καὶ τότε διαβλέψεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐκβαλεῖν.

All forms of ἀδελφός (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.