ἄρρενας (arrenas)

ἄρρενας is an Ancient Greek form of ἄρσην, meaning “male”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.6: … θεῶν καὶ γενέσεως, οὓς καὶ πῦρ εἶναι καὶ γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ· τῶν δὲ ξοάνων καταγινώσκειν, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν λεγόντων ἄρρενας εἶναι θεοὺς καὶ θηλείας.

Plato, Laws 5.740: … χῃ· τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους παῖδας, οἷς ἂν πλείους ἑνὸς γίγνωνται, θηλείας τε ἐκδόσθαι κατὰ νόμον τὸν ἐπιταχθησόμενον, ἄρρενάς τε, οἷς ἂν τῆς γενέσεως ἐλλείπῃ τῶν πολιτῶν, τούτοις ὑεῖς διανέμειν, κατὰ χάριν μὲν μάλιστα, ἐὰν δέ τισιν ἐλλ …

Aesop, Fables 406: Τὰς ὑαίνας φασὶ παρʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀλλάττειν τὴν φύσιν, καὶ ποτὲ μὲν ἄῤῥενας γίνεσθαι, ποτὲ δὲ θηλείας. Καὶ δή ποτε ἄρσην ὕαινα θηλείᾳ παρὰ φύσιν διελέχθη· ἡ δὲ ὑποτυχοῦσα ἔφη· “ἀλλ, ὡ ο …

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.