ὀξεῖαν (oxeian)

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

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.104.5: … σμέναις ταῖς ναυσὶ καθίσταντο, ἄλλως τε καὶ ἐλάσσοσι χρώμενοι τὸ πλῆθος καὶ τοῦ χωρίου τοῦ περὶ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα ὀξεῖαν καὶ γωνιώδη τὴν περιβολὴν ἔχοντος, ὥστε τὰ ἐν τῷ ἐπέκεινα αὐτοῦ γιγνόμενα μὴ κάτοπτα εἶναι.

Pindar, Olympian 7.70: νᾶσος, ἔχει τέ νιν ὀξειᾶν ὁ γενέθλιος ἀκτίνων πατήρ,

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.69.1: … ι, πολλῆς δεόμενον πραγματείας ʽοὔτε γὰρ εὐπρόσοδος ἦν οὔτε ὁμαλός, ἀλλʼ ἀπότομος καὶ εἰς κορυφὴν συναγόμενος ὀξεῖανʼ ἀναλήμμασιν ὑψηλοῖς πολλαχόθεν περιλαβὼν καὶ πολὺν χοῦν εἰς τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν τε ἀναλημμάτων καὶ τῆς κορυφῆς ἐμφο …

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.