ἀνήκεστα (anekesta)

ἀνήκεστα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνήκεστος, meaning “incurable”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 3.3: … Σιλουίαν ὀνομάζουσι. φωρᾶται δὲ μετʼ οὐ πολὺν χρόνον κυοῦσα παρὰ τὸν καθεστῶτα ταῖς Ἑστιάσι νόμον, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀνήκεστα μὴ παθεῖν αὐτὴν ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως θυγάτηρ Ἀνθὼ παρῃτήσατο, δεηθεῖσα τοῦ πατρός, εἵρχθη δὲ καὶ δίαιταν εἶχεν ἀνεπ …

Procopius, De Bellis 5.9.24: τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἄνδρας ἀναιροῦσιν ἡβηδὸν ἅπαντας, γυναῖκας δὲ θνήσκειν αἰτουμένας οὐκ ἀξιοῦσι κτείνειν, ἀλλ’ ἐς ὕβριν ἀγόμεναι πάσχουσιν ἀνήκεστά τε καὶ ἐλέου πολλοῦ ἄξια.

All forms of ἀνήκεστος (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.