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ἀλγεινόν (algeinon)

ἀλγεινόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀλγεινός, meaning “painful”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1037: λυπρὸν διάξω βίοτον ἀλγεινόν τ’ ἐμοί.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 889: εἴπερ ἀλγεινὸν τὸ τέκνων στερόμενον, δακρυρρόει.

All forms of ἀλγεινός (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.