ἀληθινόν (alethinon)

ἀληθινόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀληθινός, meaning “true, genuine”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.119: … α αὐτὸν θεάσαιντο. καί τινος εἰπόντος, Στίλπων, θαυμάζουσί σε ὡς θηρίον, οὐ μὲν οὖν, εἰπεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἄνθρωπον ἀληθινόν. δεινὸς δʼ ἄγαν ὢν ἐν τοῖς ἐριστικοῖς ἀνῄρει καὶ τὰ εἴδη· καὶ ἔλεγε τὸν λέγοντα ἄνθρωπον εἶναι μηδένα· οὔτε γ …

Plutarch, Aristides 4.5: … ταῦτα δʼ εἰπὼν καὶ τὰς κλοπὰς ἐξελέγξας τοὺς μὲν τότε βοῶντας ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ καὶ μαρτυροῦντας ἐπεστόμισε, τὸν δʼ ἀληθινὸν καὶ δίκαιον ἀπὸ τῶν βελτίστων ἔπαινον εἶχεν.

All forms of ἀληθινός (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.