ὀξεῖα (oxeia)

ὀξεῖα is an Ancient Greek form of ὀξύς, meaning “sharp, keen, piercing”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.64.2: ἐνταῦθα δὴ βοήθεια τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων γίγνεται αὐτῶν τε καὶ τῶν Εἱλώτων πανδημεὶ ὀξεῖα καὶ οἵα οὔπω πρότερον.

Plutarch, Crassus 23.6: καὶ πρὶν ἢ τοῦτο διὰ πάντων γενέσθαι καλῶς, ἦγεν οὐ σχέδην οὐδʼ ὡς ἐπὶ μάχην διαναπαύων, ἀλλʼ ὀξείᾳ καὶ συντόνῳ χρώμενος τῇ πορείᾳ μέχρι οὗ κατώφθησαν οἱ πολέμιοι, παρὰ δόξαν οὔτε πολλοὶ φανέντες οὔτε σοβαροὶ …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 4.4.8: … ουσι μὲν αὐτῶν ἐς χιλίους καὶ εἷς τῶν ἡγεμόνων, Σατράκης, ἑάλωσαν δὲ ἐς ἑκατὸν καὶ πεντήκοντα. ὡς δὲ ἡ δίωξις ὀξεῖά τε καὶ διὰ καύματος πολλοῦ ταλαιπώρως ἐγίνετο, δίψει τε ἡ στρατιὰ πᾶσα εἴχετο καὶ αὐτὸς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐλαύνων πί …

All forms of ὀξύς (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.