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ἄρρεν (arren)

ἄρρεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρσην, meaning “male”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 3.3: … υς ταῖς ὠδῖσιν αὐτῆς καὶ φύλακας, οἷς ἦν προστεταγμένον, ἐὰν μὲν θῆλυ τεχθῇ, παραδοῦναι ταῖς γυναιξίν, ἐὰν δὲ ἄρρεν, κομίσαι πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ πράττων. ἔτυχε δὲ δειπνοῦντος αὐτοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἀποκυηθὲν ἄρρεν καὶ π …

Plutarch, Amatorius 23: … οιτο τῶν τὴν Ἀφροδίτην λοιδορούντων, ὡς Ἔρωτι προσθεμένη καὶ παροῦσα κωλύει φιλίαν γενέσθαι; τὴν μὲν οὖν πρὸς ἄρρενʼ, ἄρρενος ὁμιλίαν, μᾶλλον δʼ ἀκρασίαν καὶ ἐπιπήδησιν, εἴποι τις ἂν ἐννοήσας ὕβρις τάδʼ οὐχὶ Κύπρις ἐξεργάζεται …

All forms of ἄρσην (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.