ἀδελφαί (adelphai)

ἀδελφαί is an Ancient Greek form of ἀδελφή, meaning “sister”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 26: ἐπεί μʼ ἀδελφαὶ μητρός, ἃς ἥκιστα χρῆν,

Plutarch, Lucullus 18.2: … ριδάτου Νύσσα σωτήριον ἅλωσιν αἱ δʼ ἀπωτάτω τοῦ κινδύνου καὶ καθʼ ἡσυχίαν ἀποκεῖσθαι δοκοῦσαι περὶ Φαρνάκειαν ἀδελφαί καὶ γυναῖκες οἰκτρῶς ἀπώλοντο, Μιθριδάτου πέμψαντος ἐπʼ αὐτὰς ἐκ τῆς φυγῆς Βακχίδην εὐνοῦχον. ἦσαν δὲ μετὰ πο …

All forms of ἀδελφή (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.