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ἄνακτα (anakta)

ἄνακτα is an Ancient Greek form of ἄναξ, meaning “lord, master, king”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.537: οὐ μὲν ἔτι ζώοντα καταυτόθι τέτμον ἄνακτα

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 749: ἐγὼ δʼ ἄνακτά γʼ οὐρανοῦ, σεμνὸν Δία.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.35.6: … δες· Ἀστερίου τὴν ἑτέραν ὀνομάζουσι καὶ τὸν Ἀστέριον ἐν αὐτῇ ταφῆναι λέγουσιν, εἶναι δὲ Ἀστέριον μὲν Ἄνακτος, Ἄνακτα δὲ Γῆς παῖδα· ἔχει δʼ οὖν ὁ νεκρὸς οὐδέν τι μεῖον πηχῶν δέκα.

All forms of ἄναξ (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.