ἶριν (irin)

ἶριν is an Ancient Greek form of Ἶρις, meaning “Iris (messenger of the gods); rainbow”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.963: λεῖπον Ἅλυν ποταμόν, λεῖπον δʼ ἀγχίρροον Ἶριν,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.152: … ίνεσθαι〉 παρὰ τοὺς τόπους ἀφʼ ὧν ῥέουσι. τῆς δὲ γενέσεως αὐτῶν αἴτιον γίνεσθαι τὸν ἥλιον ἐξατμίζοντα τὰ νέφη. ἶριν δʼ εἶναι αὐγὰς ἀφʼ ὑγρῶν νεφῶν ἀνακεκλασμένας ἤ, ὡς Ποσειδώνιός φησιν ἐν τῇ Μετεωρολογικῇ, ἔμφασιν ἡλίου τμήμ …

Plutarch, Amatorius 20: … ί γάρ ἔφη ἕτερον; ἀκούετʼ εἶπεν ὁ πατήρ· οὕτω γὰρ βιάζεται τὸ φαινόμενον λέγειν. ἀνάκλασις δή που τὸ περὶ τὴν ἶρίν ἐστι τῆς ὄψεως πάθος, ὅταν ἡσυχῆ νοτερῷ λείῳ δὲ καὶ μέτριον πάχος ἔχοντι προσπεσοῦσα νέφει τοῦ ἡλίου ψαύσῃ κα …

All forms of Ἶρις (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.