ἰσθμόν (isthmon)

ἰσθμόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἰσθμός, meaning “isthmus, narrow neck of land”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἰσθμός, “the Isthmus”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 169 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.947: ἰσθμὸν δʼ αὖ πεδίον τε Δολίονες ἀμφενέμοντο

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.10.2: ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἑκάστοις ἑτοῖμα γίγνοιτο, κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τὸν εἰρημένον ξυνῇσαν τὰ δύο μέρη ἀπὸ πόλεως ἑκάστης ἐς τὸν Ἰσθμόν.

Plutarch, Crassus 10.4: … ν χερρόνησον. ἐπελθὼν δʼ ὁ Κράσσος, καὶ τοῦ τόπου τὴν φύσιν ὁρῶν ὑφηγουμένην τὸ δέον, ὥρμησεν ἀποτειχίσαι τὸν ἰσθμόν, ἅμα καὶ τὴν σχολὴν τῶν στρατιωτῶν ὑφαιρῶν καὶ τὴν εὐπορίαν τῶν πολεμίων.

All forms of ἰσθμός (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.