ἀμηχάνων (amechanon)

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

It can also be a form of ἀμηχανέω, “to be at a loss, be helpless”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 148: δεῦρʼ ἦλθον ἢ κίνδυνον ἐξ ἀμηχάνων

Plutarch, Comparison of Philopoemen and Titus 1.1: … ξιόν ἐστι. τοῖς μὲν γὰρ Ἕλλησι πρὸς Ἕλληνας οἱ πόλεμοι, τῷ δὲ οὐχ Ἕλληνι καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων· καὶ ὅτε Φιλοποίμην ἀμηχανῶν τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ πολίταις ἀμύνειν πολεμουμένοις εἰς Κρήτην ἀπῆρε, τότε νικήσας Τίτος ἐν μέσῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι Φίλιππον ἠλ …

Aesop, Fables 308: Ξυλευόμενός τις παρά τινα ποταμὸν τὸν οἰκεῖον ἀπέβαλε πέλεκυν. Ἀμηχανῶν τοίνυν παρὰ τὴν ὄχθην καθίσας ὠδύρετο. Ἑρμῆς δὲ, μαθὼν τὴν αἰτίαν καὶ οἰκτείρας τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καταδὺς εἰς τὸν …

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.