ἱκανά (hikana)

ἱκανά is an Ancient Greek form of ἱκανός, meaning “sufficient”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 216 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.41.1: ‘δικαιώματα μὲν οὖν τάδε πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἔχομεν ἱκανὰ κατὰ τοὺς Ἑλλήνων νόμους, παραίνεσιν δὲ καὶ ἀξίωσιν χάριτος τοιάνδε, ἣν οὐκ ἐχθροὶ ὄντες ὥστε βλάπτειν οὐδ’ αὖ φίλοι ὥστ’ ἐπιχρῆσθαι, ἀντιδοθῆναι ἡμῖν ἐν τῷ παρόντι φαμὲν χρῆναι.

Lucian of Samosata, Soleocista 5: … τὸν ἐρωτήσαντα πηνίκα ἔξεισι; Τίς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφη, ἀποκριθείη σοι περὶ τῆς τήμερον ὡς ἐξιών; ἑτέρου δὲ φήσαντος, Ἱκανὰ ἔχω τὰ πατρῷα, Πῶς φής; εἶπε· τέθνηκε γὰρ ὁ πατήρ σοι; ἄλλου δὲ αὖθις λέγοντος, Πατριώτης ἔστι μοι· Ἐλάνθανες …

All forms of ἱκανός (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.