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ἁλμυρόν (halmyron)

ἁλμυρόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἁλμυρός, meaning “salty”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1007: ἑξείης, ἄλλοι μὲν ἐς ἁλμυρὸν ἀθρόοι ὕδωρ

Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales 5: διὰ τί τῶν χυμῶν, ὀκτὼ τῷ γένει ὄντων, ἕνα μόνον, τὸν ἁλμυρόν, ἀπʼ οὐδενὸς καρποῦ γεννώμενον ὁρῶμεν; καίτοι καὶ τὸν πικρὸν ἡ ἐλαία φέρει πρῶτον καὶ τὸν ὀξὺν ὁ βότρυς,· εἶτ …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 66.8: ἄβραν Ἀνδρομάχαν ἐνὶ ναῦσιν ἐπʼ ἄλμυρον

All forms of ἁλμυρός (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.