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ἱκανήν (hikanen)

ἱκανήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἱκανός, meaning “sufficient”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 165 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90.2: … πὸ ἐχυροῦ ποθέν, ὥσπερ νῦν ἐκ τῶν Θηβῶν, ὁρμᾶσθαι· τήν τε Πελοπόννησον πᾶσιν ἔφασαν ἀναχώρησίν τε καὶ ἀφορμὴν ἱκανὴν εἶναι.

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Epistolae 76.1: Ἱκανὴν ὁμολογῶ τῆς σῆς ἀπολείψεως ἐκτετικέναι δίκην οὐ μόνον οἷς παρὰ τὴν ἀποδημίαν συνηνέχθην ἀνιαροῖς, ἀλλὰ γὰρ κα …

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.