ἀχρεῖον (achreion)

ἀχρεῖον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀχρεῖος, meaning “useless”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.40.2: … ὸς ἔργα τετραμμένοις τὰ πολιτικὰ μὴ ἐνδεῶς γνῶναι· μόνοι γὰρ τόν τε μηδὲν τῶνδε μετέχοντα οὐκ ἀπράγμονα, ἀλλ’ ἀχρεῖον νομίζομεν, καὶ οἱ αὐτοὶ ἤτοι κρίνομέν γε ἢ ἐνθυμούμεθα ὀρθῶς τὰ πράγματα, οὐ τοὺς λόγους τοῖς ἔργοις βλάβην ἡ …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 39.357: … ὅσα σοι ἥμαρτον ἐν γνώσει τε καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ. φύλαξον δὲ καὶ τὸν πιστόν σου δοῦλον τοῦτον, οὗπερ προστῆναί με τὸν ἀχρεῖόν σου ἠξίωσας οἰκέτην·

All forms of ἀχρεῖος (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.