ἐνίκα (enika)

ἐνίκα is an Ancient Greek form of νικάω, meaning “conquer, win, prevail”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 153 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.8.1: οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης νεὼς ἐκπεμφθέντες Μυτιληναίων πρέσβεις, ὡς αὐτοῖς οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι εἶπον Ὀλυμπίαζε παρεῖναι, ὅπως καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ξύμμαχοι ἀκούσαντες βουλεύσωνται, ἀφικνοῦνται ἐς τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν· ἦν δὲ Ὀλυμπιὰς ᾗ Δωριεὺς Ῥόδιος τὸ δεύτερον ἐνίκα.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus 9: παρὰ δὲ τὰς τῶν ἑνικῶν τε καὶ πληθυντικῶν διαφοράς, ὅταν ἐναλλάττῃ τὴν ἑκατέρου τούτων τάξιν, ἑνικὰ μὲν ἀντὶ πληθυντικῶν οὕτως ἐκφέρει· καὶ εἴ τῳ ἄρα παρέστηκεν τὸν μὲν Συρακόσιον, αὑτὸν δὲ οὐ πολέμιον εἶναι τ …

All forms of νικάω (conjugation 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.