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ἀμήχανα (amechana)

ἀμήχανα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀμήχανος, meaning “helpless, impossible”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 464: γενναῖα μὲν τάδʼ εἶπας, ἀλλʼ ἀμήχανα.

Procopius, De Bellis 1.25.13: Ἀντωνίνα δὲ ἡ Βελισαρίου γυνὴ ʽἦν γὰρ ἱκανωτάτη ἀνθρώπων ἁπάντων μηχανᾶσθαι τὰ ἀμήχανἀ χαριεῖσθαι τῇ βασιλίδι βουλευσαμένη ἐπενόει τοιάδε. ἦν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ θυγάτηρ Εὐφημία, δόξαν μὲν ἐπὶ σωφροσύνῃ πολ …

All forms of ἀμήχανος (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.