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ἐλευθέρα (eleuthera)

ἐλευθέρα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλεύθερος, meaning “free”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.28.4: … ι ἦσαν οἱ πλεῖστοι ἐκ Πελοποννήσου· τό τε πόλισμα Τισσαφέρνει παραδόντες καὶ τὰ ἀνδράποδα πάντα καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα, ὧν καθ’ ἕκαστον στατῆρα Δαρεικὸν παρ’ αὐτοῦ ξυνέβησαν λαβεῖν, ἔπειτα ἀνεχώρησαν ἐς τὴν Μίλητον.

Euripides, Heracleidae 62: ἐλευθέρα τε γαῖʼ ἐν ᾗ βεβήκαμεν.

Plutarch, Aristides 19.6: καὶ τὸν βωμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐπέγραψαν οὕτως, εἰ μόναι τρεῖς πόλεις ἠγωνίσαντο, τῶν ἄλλων ἀτρέμα καθεζομένων· τόνδε ποθʼ Ἕλληνες νίκας κράτει, ἔργῳ Ἄρηος, Πέρσας ἐξελάσαντες ἐλευθέρᾳ Ἑλλάδι κοινὸν ἱδρύσαντο Διὸς βωμὸν ἐλευθερίου.

All forms of ἐλεύθερος (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.