ἀναγκαῖαι (anankaiai)

ἀναγκαῖαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναγκαῖος, meaning “necessary; close (kinsman)”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.127: … ντως οὐκ ἐσόμενον. “Ἀναλογιστέον δὲ ὡς τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν αἱ μέν εἰσι φυσικαί, αἱ δὲ κεναί. καὶ τῶν φυσικῶν αἱ μὲν ἀναγκαῖαι, αἱ δὲ φυσικαὶ μόνον· τῶν δʼ ἀναγκαίων αἱ μὲν πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν εἰσὶν ἀναγκαῖαι, αἱ δὲ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ σώματος ἀο …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum 6.11: ἔστι δὲ ἃ καὶ κατὰ τὸν πραγματικὸν τόπον ἁμαρτάνει, καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὰς παρεμβολάς· οὔτε γὰρ ἀναγκαῖαί τινες αὐτῶν οὔτʼ ἐν καιρῷ γενόμεναι, πολὺ δὲ τὸ παιδιῶδες ἐμφαίνουσαι· ἐν αἷς ἐστι καὶ τὰ περὶ Σιληνοῦ τοῦ φα …

Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 61: ἃ δʼ ἄλλως μὲν ἔασεν, ἀναγκαίαι γὰρ ἕποντο

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.