ἀναγκαίοις (anankaiois)

ἀναγκαίοις is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναγκαῖος, meaning “necessary; close (kinsman)”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἀναγκαῖον, “necessary thing; (adj.) necessary”.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 11.1: … ς γὰρ ὠρύγη περὶ τὸ νῦν Κομίτιον κυκλοτερής, ἀπαρχαί τε πάντων, ὅσοις νόμῳ μὲν ὡς καλοῖς ἐχρῶντο, φύσει δʼ ὡς ἀναγκαίοις, ἀπετέθησαν ἐνταῦθα. καὶ τέλος ἐξ ἧς ἀφῖκτο γῆς ἕκαστος ὀλίγην κομίζων μοῖραν ἔβαλλον εἰς ταὐτὸ καὶ συνεμείγν …

All forms of ἀναγκαῖος (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.