ἔθνη (ethne)

ἔθνη is an Ancient Greek form of ἔθνος, meaning “people, nation, tribe”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 629 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.2: … μα τοῦτο ξύμπασά πω εἶχεν, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν πρὸ Ἕλληνος τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος καὶ πάνυ οὐδὲ εἶναι ἡ ἐπίκλησις αὕτη, κατὰ ἔθνη δὲ ἄλλα τε καὶ τὸ Πελασγικὸν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀφ’ ἑαυτῶν τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν παρέχεσθαι, Ἕλληνος δὲ καὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτο …

New Testament, Luke 24.47: καὶ κηρυχθῆναι ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ μετάνοιαν εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνὴ, — ἀρξάμενοι ἀπὸ Ἰερουσαλήμ·

Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 2.7: … νοτον ἤτοι Λιβόνοτον, μέσον δὲ ἀπαρκτίου καὶ ἀργέστου Θρασκίαν ἤτοι κίρκιον ὑπὸ τῶν περιοίκων [ὀνομαζόμενον]. Ἔθνη δὲ οἰκεῖν τὰ πέρατα· κατ᾿ ἀπηλιώτην Βακτριανοὺς, κατ᾿ εὖρον Ἰνδοὺς, κατὰ Φοίνικα Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν καὶ Αἰθιοπί …

All forms of ἔθνος (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.