ἀριστεράν (aristeran)

ἀριστεράν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀριστερός, meaning “left”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 1125: λαβοῦσα δʼ ὠλένης ἀριστερὰν χέρα,

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 7·2: … πρίῃ. τὸ δʼ ὅλον πῶς οὐκ ἄτοπον τῇ μὲν δεξιᾷ συνεθίζειν τὰ παιδία δέχεσθαι τὰς τροφάς, κἂν εἰ προτείνειε τὴν ἀριστεράν, ἐπιτιμᾶν, μηδεμίαν δὲ ποιεῖσθαι πρόνοιαν τοῦ λόγων ἐπιδεξίων καὶ νομίμων ἀκούειν;

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.34.8: … , πρώτη μὲν Ἁλιοῦσσα—παρέχεται δὲ αὕτη λιμένα ἐνορμίσασθαι ναυσὶν ἐπιτήδειον—, μετὰ δὲ Πιτυοῦσσα, τρίτη δὲ ἣν Ἀριστερὰν ὀνομάζουσι. ταύτας δὲ παραπλεύσαντί ἐστιν αὖθις ἄκρα Κωλυεργία ἀνέχουσα ἐκ τῆς ἠπείρου, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὴν νῆσος Τ …

All forms of ἀριστερός (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.