ἄγκυραν (ankyran)

ἄγκυραν is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγκυρα, meaning “anchor”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.105: … ν ὑβρισθεὶς ἔφη, μειράκιον, ἐὰν νέος ὢν τὸν οἶνον οὐ φέρῃς, γέρων γενόμενος ὕδωρ οἴσεις. Εὗρε δʼ εἰς τὸν βίον ἄγκυράν τε καὶ κεραμικὸν τροχόν, ὥς τινες. Καὶ ἐπέστειλεν ὧδε· Ἀνάχαρσις Κροίσῳ “Ἐγώ, βασιλεῦ Λυδῶν, ἀφῖγμαι εἰς τὴν …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1351: ἄγκυραν ἐξανῆπτον· οἳ δέ, κλίμακας

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 14.1: … ίλεις ἤδη, ὅπως μὴ αὖθις ἐρίζωμέν τι περὶ αὐτῶν. Λογισώμεθα, ὦ Ἑρμῆ· ἄμεινον γὰρ ὡρίσθαι καὶ ἀπραγμονέστερον. Ἄγκυραν ἐντειλαμένῳ ἐκόμισα πέντε δραχμῶν. Πολλοῦ λέγεις. Νὴ τὸν Ἀϊδωνέα, τῶν πέντε ὠνησάμην, καὶ τροπωτῆρα δύο ὀβολῶ …

All forms of ἄγκυρα (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.