ἐρυθρά (erythra)

ἐρυθρά is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρυθρός, meaning “red”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or dative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of Ἐρυθραί, “Erythrai — a city of the Ionians (Steph”. It is the nominative dual masculine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.57: ἢ μάκωνʼ ἁπαλὰν ἐρυθρὰ πλαταγώνιʼ ἔχοισαν.

Plutarch, Pompey 38.3: … άγει, καὶ τρίτον ἔναγχος Ἀλβανοὺς διώκων ὀλίγον ἐδέησεν ἐμβαλεῖν εἰς τὴν Ὑρκανίαν θάλασσαν, ὡς οὖν συνάψων τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ τὴν περίοδον τῆς στρατείας ἀνίστατο. καὶ γὰρ ἄλλως τὸν Μιθριδάτην ἑώρα δυσθήρατον ὄντα τοῖς ὅπλοις καὶ φεύγον …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales 1: … καὶ φθείρει τὸ χρηστὸν καὶ πότιμον, ὡς ἐν ἡμῖν οἱ πυρετοὶ τὸ ὑγρὸν εἰς χολὴν τρέπουσιν. ἃ δʼ ἱστοροῦσιν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ βλαστάνειν ὑλήματα καὶ φυτά, καρπὸν μὲν οὐδένα φέρει τρέφεται δὲ τοῖς ποταμοῖς πολλὴν ἐμβάλλουσιν ἰλύ …

All forms of ἐρυθρός (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.