ἱκανοί (hikanoi)

ἱκανοί is an Ancient Greek form of ἱκανός, meaning “sufficient”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἱκάνω, “come, arrive at”.

Found 170 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.35.5: … ίκνυμεν, καὶ μέγιστον ὅτι οἵ τε αὐτοὶ πολέμιοι ἡμῖν ἦσαν, ὅπερ σαφεστάτη πίστις, καὶ οὗτοι οὐκ ἀσθενεῖς, ἀλλ’ ἱκανοὶ τοὺς μεταστάντας βλάψαι· καὶ ναυτικῆς καὶ οὐκ ἠπειρώτιδος τῆς ξυμμαχίας διδομένης οὐχ ὁμοία ἡ ἀλλοτρίωσις, ἀλ …

Plutarch, De Sera Numinis Vindicta 12·2: … ναμπέχονοι γυμνοῖς ποσὶν ἠύτε δοῦλαι ἠοῖαι σαίρεσκον Ἀθηναίης περὶ βωμόν, νόσφι κρηδέμνοιο, καὶ εἰ βαρὺ γῆρας ἱκάνοι, διὰ τὴν Αἴαντος ἀκολασίαν. ποῦ δὴ ταῦτα τὸ εὔλογον ἴσχει καὶ δίκαιον; οὐδὲ γὰρ Θρᾷκας ἐπαινοῦμεν, ὅτι στίζου …

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.